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TIL that 5 basketball players were suspended by the NCAA because they had appeared in the movie "Hoosiers". They were suspended for 3 days and ordered to return the money that they had been paid.

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mxAvO TIL about Shavarsh Karapetyan was a world-record holder in finswimming. In 1976, a bus with 90 people crashed into a lake, he rescued over 20 people by repeatedly diving, was hospitalized for 3 weeks, suffered irreversible lung damage, and set another world record at the next USSR championship.
yVdV TIL that in May of 2011, the Ku Klux Klan released statements attempting to distance themselves from the Westboro Babtist Church. Their leader said, “It’s the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech.”
nWJM7 TIL that the Chicxulub asteroid sent pieces of Earth as far as Jupiter’s moons.
R7jj7 TIL the font in the intro to Stranger Things is called ITC Benguiat, and it is an instrumental part of the 1980s feel of the show
GYwg TIL, that Kari Byron’s first job on Mythbusters was to create a cast mold of her buttocks.