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TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a writer on the revival of Veronica Mars.

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AZk4 TIL Cashew nuts grow out of a “strange apple”
X0eZ8 TIL that the trope of vampires dying in the sun was only created in 1922 during the ending of Nosferatu
DWLY TIL of Jennifer Bricker. Born with no legs and left at the hospital. From early age she wanted to be a gymnast and idolized American Olympian Dominique Moceanu. At the age 16 she discovered they were actually sisters.
awoN9 TIL Astronaut Jim Lovell was asked if he would go on another spaceflight after an explosion almost killed the crew of Apollo 13 on its way to the Moon. Lovell was about to say yes. Then he saw a hand shoot up from the audience and slowly give the thumbs-down sign. It was his wife, Marilyn.
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