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woK6W TIL there are more american robins in the US than there are people.
xVAxg TIL the Los Angeles Lakers drafted Vlade Divac in 1989 to replace Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In 2004, they signed him again to replace Shaquille O'Neal.
pYEOp TIL of Trofim Lysenko, an influential Soviet scientist who rejected genetics in favor of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas. These ideas led to catastrophic famines in the Soviet Union that killed millions of people, and was also adapted in China to similarly calamitous results.
dQ1Q TIL the record for the longest throw of an object without any velocity-aiding feature was a non-returning boomerang thrown 427.2 m (1,401.5 ft)
16ow7 TIL Westinghouse acquired CBS in 1994, sold most of its own non media business, then renamed itself CBS in 1997