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TIL that Heath Ledger refused to present the Oscars in 2007 after he and Jake Gyllenhaal were asked to make fun of their "Brokeback Mountain" characters' romance

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VBR74 TIL during his Flight School basketball camp in 2016, Michael Jordan was challenged by Chris Paul to a shooting drill where if Jordan missed three shots, the campers would all receive free Air Jordans. Jordan accepted and made every shot.
Z8Pwo TIL that Matt Stutzmann- a man without arms- holds the record in archery for the farthest accurate shot under FITA conditions. The shot is on 283.47 m (930.04 ft)!
W0kY TIL the inventor of Tickle Me Elmo was suspected by the FBI of being the Unabomber.
KnBJ TIL that humans came very close to extinction at least 3 times, at one point possibly falling to a worldwide population of 600
py0N TIL that Perrier water and its competitor San Pellegrino are both owned by the Nestle corporation.