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TIL That many of Rodin’s most famous works, including The Thinker, are actually enlargements from a single sculptural piece, The Gates of Hell

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D1Jjr TIL that Pat McCormick, head writer for The Tonight Show, streaked across the stage during Johnny Carson's monologue in 1974. (For Golden Girls fans, McCormick was also the drugstore clerk who asked for a price check on condoms. https://youtu.be/BpNS8jYniLY)
R5rj4 TIL that in highly intelligent children, their cortex develops LATER than less intelligent children
16Om7 TIL the president of India is female.
E1Oow TIL about Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, retired at 22, begun abusing drugs, at one moment being hardly able to raise from a sofa for days on end. In 2011 he got back into swimming, and at the 2016 Olympics became the oldest swimmer to win a gold medal.
yQblX TIL NBA Player Jusuf Nurkic was discovered when a sports agent read a newspaper article about his 7ft/400lb father. The article stated that "Bosnian policeman, Hariz Nurkic has beaten 14 people in a fight." The sports agent found the father asked him if he had a son. Jusuf was only 14yrs old.