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TIL NBA superstar Hakeem Olajuwon released a $35 shoe instead of endorsing shoes from a major brand because he didn’t like seeing what kids do for $100+ shoes.

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BrOOk TIL Ming Dynasty eunuchs and courtesans in the Ming Dynasty formed a distinctive form of marriage in a secretive way. Although Ming eunuchs were incapable of bearing children, they were equally eager to have a family.
XEn0j SpaceX astronauts brought a little dinosaur in the rocket.
Lk95Q TIL the band Iron Maiden has their own Boeing 747 named after their mascot, Eddy, and their lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson is the pilot.
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0w8DL TIL when Max Planck began his studies in Munich in 1874, his physics professor told him to not study physics because it was a mostly fully figured out field of science with little prospect of development and only two unsolved problems.These problems ended up being radioactivity and quantum physics.