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TIL In addition to numbers 23 and 45, Michael Jordan wore #12 for one game after his jersey was stolen

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byoj TIL that in 1965 Pakistani pilot M.M. Alam shot down five jet fighters in less than a minute – the first four within 30 seconds, establishing a world record.
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