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X04eE TIL that during Dean Smith's tenure as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, 96.6% of his players received their degrees and he also helped pioneer desegregation by recruiting their first black scholarship player, Charlie Scott.
7rw0r TIL giraffes fight by swinging their necks at each other.
dDAP8 TIL that the goofy "baby talk" most adults naturally use to talk to babies actually helps them develop language better than speaking them normally.
l7J47 TIL female Crocodiles can produce offspring asexually, without the need for fertilisation from a male
a8pGo TIL Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera was the first black athlete to become an Olympic gold medalist as a member of the France squad that won the title at the first Olympic rugby tournament at Paris in 1900. He also won the bronze in the tug of war at the same Games.