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TIL: the longest competitive badminton match lasts for 161 minutes in 2016 Badminton Asian Championships women’s doubles semi-finals between Japan and Indonesia

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R7Nw7 TIL that the first non-white person in the NBA was Wataru Misaka a 5’7” Japanese-American point guard. Drafted in 1947, he’s still alive and turns 95 today!
LlRV TIL that money can buy happiness. But researchers have found that its emotional well-being benefits max out at a salary of about 75K a year.
NXy7J TIL Cheryl Miller, who turned 60 on Wednesday, won two NCAA titles at USC and a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in basketball. Furthermore, her younger brother Reggie also played basketball.
R7Pk4 TIL 19th century Swiss watchmakers used to copy American watches and make 'superfakes' of American brands
BrYox TIL in Europe between 1550 and 1700 over 80,000 people were tried for witchcraft and half were executed - often burned alive. Data shows it was most intense where Catholic-Protestant rivalry was strongest and the phenomenon reached its zenith when there was “peak competition for Christian consumers"