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TIL The night before the Olympic final, Michael Jordan apparently spent the night drinking and gambling all night, then he went on a long day of press appearances, plus 18 holes of golf in Barcelona, before he went on to lead Team USA in a gold-medal winning victory over Croatia.

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P1Ake TIL Forecast (relating to Weather) is an invented word in 1850's by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who also captained HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyages. The concept of a weather forecast was met with amusement and some of the earliest users were people betting on horse races
R5rxQ TIL that even after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with Japanese leadership still in disagreement over surrendering, the Allies executed the largest and longest bombing campaign of the Pacific War, with 1014 aircraft used.
BraRy TIL in 2016, Capt Bertrand Piccard was the first person to fly around the world in a plane powered entirely by the sun; 25k miles w/o a drop of fuel. His great uncle, Jean Felix Piccard, was a high-altitude balloonist and inspired Gene Roddenberry to create the STNG character Capt Jean-Luc Picard.
am4J TIL Tex Johnson, a Boeing test pilot, was to demonstrate the then-new 707 to a group of airline executives by doing a level fly by. Instead, he barrel-rolled the aircraft. When called in by his boss and asked what the hell he was doing, he said “Selling airplanes.”
yV8Jp TIL: The positive form of stress is "Eustress", where you feel motivated and focused and perform at your peak