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TIL Cheryl Miller, who turned 60 on Wednesday, won two NCAA titles at USC and a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in basketball. Furthermore, her younger brother Reggie also played basketball.

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ADwja TIL Napoleon’s penis was allegedly bought in 1977 by Columbia University professor emeritus John Lattimer for $3,000, who passed it on to his daughter before he died in 2007.
GKV1 TIL that the Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.
p8DZA TIL in the 1970s food advertising started moving, which is why we see all the fancy tricks: shrimp doing flips, apples sliced in mid air, lobster claws cracking in slow-motion, french fries bouncing across a table. Because of Elbert Budin.
Oodya TIL that the word "pixel" is short for "picture element"
yVkJ8 TIL there has been one member of the US Congress that was born into royalty. Prince Jonah Kuhio was Hawaiian nobility before the territory was annexed and he served in the House of Reps from 1903-1922. Happy Prince Kuhio Day / 152nd Bday!