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TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA star, is actually a published novelist and has written about the adventures of Mycroft Holmes, in addition to other works

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7JWL TIL of the most isolated tree, Arbre du Ténéré, was 249 miles from any other tree (and far from other landmarks) yet was still managed to be hit and killed by a drunk truck driver in 1973.
LQ1Mr TIL that in the 1970s, IKEA was expanding so rapidly that German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz, approximately 200 miles (320 km) from their intended location of Koblenz.
N75oE TIL of Iqbal Masih, a young boy who was rescued from slavery at a carpet loom. This young activist was assassinated at the age of 12 in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1995 by someone believed to be a feudal landlord and carpet manufacturer.
QX09 TIL coconut crabs are suspected of hiding Amelia Earhart’s remains.
epkek TIL there are 29% (or 12.8 percentage points) more male home gardeners (56.4%) in the US than there are female home gardeners (43.6%)