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TIL The NBA record for most rebounds in a single game is held by Wilt Chamberlain, with 55 rebounds. His opponent in that game was Bill Russell.

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859Z TIL Neil Simon wrote an intentionally bad Broadway play because his ex-wife was entitled to the profits as per their divorce agreement.
KZlw TIL the guy who succeeded Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society was the man who invented chocolate milk.
wLo5P TIL: In the 1960's A Russian writer wrote a book about earthlings who travel to the moon, only to discover a "western style" capitalism society, and spend the remains of the book "liberating" the moon inhabitants from the jaws of capitalism via you guessed it, communism
KAVG TIL that 60 years ago today, virologist Jonas Salk announced the first successful testing of a vaccine for Polio.
j6rJM TIL of the lituya bay mega tsunami in 1950’s Alaska. The waves reached for a time a height of over 1,700 feet tall!