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TIL when Yao Ming played his first game in Miami, the Heat promoted the game by passing out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao wasn’t offended because he had never seen a fortune cookie, and assumed it was an American invention

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gMxa9 TIL Our Sun has "Sunquakes" generating waves reaching 2 miles high and reaching speeds up to 250,000 mph.
70pP TIL in 1959, a segregationist school board shuttered its district rather than allow black students; whites took school vouchers and attended a local private academy (which did not integrate until 1986)
1akyV TIL Using headphones for listening to a level like 85 decibels is generally safe for eight hours. A level of 94, 95 decibels will cause potential damages to hearing
mxJNo TIL in the movie "Dumb and Dumber", Jim Carrey's chipped tooth is genuine, resulting from a fight with a classmate in his childhood, but he had since had it capped. He simply had the crown temporarily removed from that tooth to portray Lloyd
kOQlW TIL that in Japan you can hire someone to seduce your spouse (or anyone else)