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TIL one of the wealthiest drug lords in history died after extensive plastic surgery to change his appearance

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OoglY TIL that longer basketball shorts became a thing when Michael Jordan asked Champion, the maker of NBA uniforms, to make longer shorts so he could grab onto them when he hunched over out of breath.
PQgG TIL There’s an Arnold Schwarzenegger programming language called ‘ArnoldC’
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