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TIL Brooke Shields played a 12 year old prostitute and filmed nude scenes in the 1978 film, Pretty Baby

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D10Ep TIL walking before solving a problem improves your creativity by an average of 60%.
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Wvp8 TIL that when Dave Hampton became the first Atlanta Falcon to rush for 1000 yards in a season in the last game of the 1972 season the game was stopped so the team could honor him. Soon after, Hampton was tripped up in the backfield on a sweep, losing five yards. He finished the season with 995 yards
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