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TIL NFL Hall of Famer Lynn Swann was the inspiration for Troy Bolton and High School Musical

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DQLEj TIL that kids don’t have solid, fully-formed kneecaps until 10-12 years old. 🤯 Explains why babies can crawl almost anywhere without pain.
0Ej TIL after a student was suspended for wearing their t-shirt, Korn donated hundreds of shirts to be given out and police officers helped to do so
YpwlG TIL that Al Stewart quit song writing in the 1970s & moved to London to play cover songs. His neighbor Paul Simon rejuvenated his passion & happenstance led him to write "Year of the Cat." He thought it had no commercial appeal so he made it the last track on a 1976 album. It still pays his rent.
woOgY TIL that the Pop-It bubble popper was originally invented in 1975 by Theo and Ora Coster of Theora Concepts: a married Israeli couple who had invented many games including Guess Who? and Zingo!. Incidentally, Theo was a former classmate of Anne Frank.
77lP TIL after the US Airways Flight 1549 ditching on the Hudson (aka “Miracle on the Hudson”), officials captured and gassed 1,235 Canadian geese and destroyed 1,739 goose eggs across New York City.