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TIL Celtics GM Red Auerbach planned to draft Len Bias for three years, only for Len to die two days after being drafted after snorting cocaine for 3-4 hours in his dorm room after coming home from a college party

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VP4D TIL the German government does not recognize Scientology as a religion; rather, it views it as an abusive business masquerading as a religion
R7Xv6 TIL about John Atanasoff, who built the first digital computer, but got very little credit because his employer, Iowa State College, never filed the patent application
5vPP TIL: A South African doctor tried to create a virus that would only affect black people.
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