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TIL: Coach Stan Van Gundy was fined for saying NBA shouldn’t be playing games on Christmas Day

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wDJ8 TIL British PM Gordon Brown hand-wrote a letter of condolence to a mother whose son had died in Afghanistan where he misspelled the deceased’s surname. The Sun published a vitriolic article criticising his lack of care but misspelled the same name and was forced to publish an apology of its own
kyAE TIL: Women who live in areas with polluted air are up to twice as likely to have an autistic child than those with cleaner air
AD44l TIL about a man in India who helps bury over 60 stray dogs that were killed by speeding vehicles and gives them dignity in death
M5Am TIL the U.S. Patent office allowed someone to patent the idea of “wireless communication” in 2010. They are now suing Apple & Samsung.
gr1AA TIL "First Man" screenwriter Josh Singer interviewed Neil Armstrong's wife Janet, who died two months before the release of the 2018 movie. Janet's anger during Neil's mission was real, as seen in her outburst to NASA men, "You're just a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood!"