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TIL that Nike controls over 90% of the basketball shoe market

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4X1Nb TIL: The suspect behind the first major global virus pandemic was not hired by Microsoft, but in fact now runs a cellphone repair shop in Manila, Philippines
9wMlB TIL that only two individuals of an endangered species called the "Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse" have ever been found.
yWBl TIL that while women and Saudi Arabia are allowed to fly a plane, they must be chauffeured to the airport because it is illegal for them to operate a motor vehicle
aw4Wy TIL that the pirate Benjamin Hornigold once raided a merchant ship just to steal the hats from the ship's crew because his crew had gotten too drunk the night before and had thrown their hats overboard.
GY0WQ TIL if all the above-ground gold in the world were melted together and formed into a cube, it would measure approximately 21.7 meters (71 feet) on a side