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TIL Basketball star Jayson Tatum and hockey star Matthew Tkachuk have been close friends since high school in St. Louis. They each won championships in their respective sports within a week of each other in June 2024.

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nWJWo TIL written Japanese uses three different types of characters: hiragana (a syllabary), katana (ANOTHER syllabary), and kanji (Chinese characters).
p8464 TIL the tongue twister "She sells Seashells by the seashore' is about Mary Anning, a woman who sold "curios" which were small fossils at a popular seashore. She went on to discover the Ichthyosaurs and helped discover the Plesiosaurus.
7d6r TIL A cat has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years.
0wn1 TIL that a 9 year old Karl Rove was beaten up by a neighborhood girl and given a bloody nose for putting a Nixon sticker on his bicycle.
5YLLp TIL that churches in Africa played a strong role in persecuting children in the name of witch hunting.