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TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) only starred in BASEketball - they did not write or direct the film

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kOE1 TIL That Usain Bolt would beat a Free Fall diver (and gravity) in a race to the finish.
R7PD8 TIL in 1740, a mother, annoyed that her son would play immature pranks on people wrote “All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty; to get people into his garden and wet them, and put things in their beds to make them itch”
rR640 TIL that a 1631 edition of the Bible published by the royal printers of London caused an uproar when it was found that the Ten Commandments included “thou shalt commit adultery.” Most copies of this Wicked Bible were found and ordered destroyed; the few that survived are highly sought by collectors.
Vr6B TIL in the last 5 millennia, genetic change in humans has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Humans today are more genetically different from humans living 5,000 years ago than these people were from humans living 40,000 years ago.
m1EnY TIL: Rowdy Roddy Piper was a member of COBRA, enemy of GI. JOE! He was made into a special limited edition action figure for the fan club!