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TIL that Mychal Thompson suggested drafting Michael Jordan over Bowie in 1984 NBA draft so that MJ and Drexler could team up in Trail Blazers. Mychal told the organization that if you pick Jordan, and he and Clyde play together, they're going to dominate this league for the next 10 or 15 years.

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pnMQ TIL that during the Winter War 1939, one exceptionally burly Finnish ski trooper immobilized a Soviet tank with nothing but a crowbar, prying the treads off by brute force.
nWGk7 TIL That the reason most people did not smile in old photographs was due to long exposure times, ranging anywhere from 20 seconds to 20 mins the subjects had to hold perfectly still.
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