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TIL: Lisa Leslie was the first woman to dunk a ball professionally

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Oo4QX TIL - During World War II, at the urging of the US government, actress Veronica Lake changed her signature hairstyle because women working in war time machine shops were often injured when their long hair became tangled in machinery.

XE4kP TIL that Idaho is the only State in America named through a hoax. In 1860, George M. Willing, presented the name Idaho, claiming it derived from the phrase "Gem of the mountains." When in fact it means nothing.

XEODQ Children have energy levels greater than endurance athletes.

ydj8 TIL while trying to eclipse the Eiffel Tower for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, an inventor named J. B. McComber proposed a 8,947 foot tower which would have rails extending from the top, leading all the way to New York City, Baltimore, and Boston, on which fair-goers could toboggan all the way home

VoMm TIL albums are always released on Tuesdays in the US, and no one really knows why