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TIL: Kobe Bryant's "33" High School basketball jersey was stolen in 2017 and sold to a collector in China who returned it after suspecting it was stolen.

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0wJly TIL that The King's School, a day and boarding school in Canterbury, Kent, England is the oldest continuously operating school in the world. It was founded in 597 AD by Augustine of Canterbury a century after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West as a medieval cathedral school.
Wk9eo TIL that the jesus nut, in some helicopter designs, is the single nut that holds the helicopters rotors to the body of the air craft. The term came around in the Vietnam War, one of the first conflicts to make use of helicopters.
g07b TIL that after Whitehead and Russell proved that 1+1=2 in Principia Mathematica, they commented that it was “occasionally useful”
0ddYN TIL in 2009 British people rebelled against the ongoing trend of X Factor victors winning Christmas number one by purchasing copies of Rage Against the Machine
1aokX TIL about a Soviet Air Force lieutenant, Viktor Belenko's defection. He first flew a MiG-25 fighter to Japan in 1976 and gained political asylum in the United States.