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TIL that "dribbling" in basketball was never part of the game but was an exploit invented by Yale University in 1897.

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Z8P4G TIL that multi-platinum R&B/Pop singer Keri Hilson dissed Beyonce and received overwhelming backlash, causing her to fall into a 9-year depression. She hasn't released any music in 9 years and now considers herself washed up. She's only 37 years old.
XEdP8 TIL that mucus gets its green color from an enzyme white blood cells use to make a corrosive chemical called hypochlorite to dissolve bacteria. Hypochlorite is the same chemical used in household bleach.
VMJPp TIL that, if it were an independent country, California would have the fifth-largest economy in the world.
9LJX TIL that a Harvard School of Public Health study found that people who smoke weed tend to have lower levels of insulin, better cholesterol, and smaller waist circumferences than people who don’t smoke weed even after adjusting for things like age, race, alcohol or tobacco use, and activity levels.
OG5yX TIL that Africa is being torn apart by the East African Rift. You can already see its effect by many lakes forming a line between the red sea and Lake Malawi