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TIL the NBA's Vlade Divac replaced both Kareem Abdjl-Jabbar (1989) and Shaquille O'Neal (2004) on the Los Angeles Lakers

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kJ6B4 TIL the West Shore Line railroad tracks go under a large portion of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY
DlgY TIL that Charles Hires, the first person to successfully market a commercial brand of root beer, decided to call his drink “root beer” despite it not containing any alcohol because he wanted to market it to Pennsylvania coal miners
JYJ1k TIL: Silent disco or silent rave is an event where people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones
gR1A TIL When King Charles II of Navarra was sick, his doctor ordered him to be wrapped in linen and covered in brandy. Unfortunately, instead of cutting the last thread of linen with scissors, the nurse thought it’d be a great idea to burn it off, burning the King alive.
aeAA TIL British soldiers call their SA-80 rifle “the Civil Servant” because “it doesn’t work and can’t be fired.”