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TIL LeBron James has never scored 0 points in an NBA game, his fewest points in a game was against the Rockets on December 29, 2004, with 3 points

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JYGyj TIL John von Newmann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age six and learned calculus by age eight. He developed the computer architecture that virtually all computing devices use today. He became a US strategic adviser and his game theory led to the MAD doctrine.
aa6A TIL Mike Tyson has coped with negative emotions throughout his life by caring for pigeons. As a child he suffered bullying & depression (the first punch he ever threw was at a bully that killed one of his birds) & as an adult with his sunk career and death of his 4 year-old daughter.
d8Ybd TIL about Ensign Wasp. This small insect, occasionally found inside our houses, is actually beneficial to our homes because it feeds on cockroach eggs, thus controlling cockroach infestations :)
Qb99 TIL Apple profit $1,000,000,000 weekly, but they can’t spend all of it so most of it ends up getting thrown onto their mountain of barely wanted cash - the most cash ever held by a corporation, 0.1% of all the money in the world, more than enough to buy Samsung outright. It’s up to $206,000,000,000
JYpAV TIL about the Banach–Tarski Paradox where mathematically it is possible to split an object in to multiple parts and recombine them into two exact copies of the original without adding new material.