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TIL that longer basketball shorts became a thing when Michael Jordan asked Champion, the maker of NBA uniforms, to make longer shorts so he could grab onto them when he hunched over out of breath.

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KY8OR T​IL about James Graham​, ​a 18th century Scottish sexologist, who treated patients at his 'Celestial Bed', a canopied "wonder-working edifice" covered in musical automata, fresh flowers & live turtle dove​s, and which stimulated couples to conceive with oriental fragrances and celestial sounds
ZAVR TIL that Honey bees initially have up to 21 virgin queen bees, who fight to the death until there is only one.
nWJmY TIL about Jesse James biopic made in 1927. His light-hearted portrayal was found inaccurate by those who still remembered him as a vicious murderer, and the movie failed.
edJ TIL Joe Mauer only struck out once in four years of high school baseball.
NXeM6 TIL that nearly 25% of the world's population is Muslim