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TIL Michael Jordan briefly took up playing professional baseball after leaving the NBA

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6Ed8m TIL The USA planned on using up to 12 nukes if Japan didn't surrender during WW2
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1KjX TIL A Hippo must stay moist, because if its skin dries out, it will crack. Its skin also secretes a red fluid that is thought to be an antibiotic, sunscreen and skin moisturizer. People once thought that the red secretions were blood and that hippos sweat blood.
9YMjQ TIL that the actors that played Ethel and Fred hated one another so much, that Vivian Vance (Ethel) once stated: “I loathed William Frawley (Fred) and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wasn’t a scene where we had to be in bed together.”
vekD TIL the Super Mario Bros. movie directors were so disliked by the studio and actors that they locked them out of the editing room when filming finished