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TIL about the Slam Dunk (as in the name of the manga) scholarship, a program that lets Japanese students study in the US to become a professional basketball player

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b9RPj TIL that the origin of the idiom "Red Herring" was itself a red herring. It was originally stated that red herring were used to help hounds sniff out prey. It's misleading because red herring were actually used to train horses and were only used if there were no dead cats available instead.
oBAlA TIL the word 'assassin' comes from the order of Hashashins, a sect from the middle ages. Young boys were believed to be shown paradise by giving them cannabis (hashish). The leader would ask them to e.g. kill someone, 'so he could get them back to paradise' afterwards. They complied.
g9j7 TIL Dick Bong is the USs highest air ace, shooting down at least 40 planes during WW II. He actually collided with one plane, claiming a “probable” victory. In 1945, he became a Lockheed test pilot and died in a crash of a P-80 jet fighters on the same day that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
LyxQ TIL that Simpsons’ “Bleeding Gums” Murphy is Dr. Hibbert’s brother
DdEp TIL 60% of cigarettes in New York are black market cigarettes that are being smuggled into New York illegally.