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TIL John Cena holds the record for wishes granted with the Make-A-Wish foundation by any celebrity at over 400

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xEKB TIL in 2010, hackers successfully broke into Sony Music servers and stole every single recording done by Michael Jackson, including unheard studio sessions and unreleased songs, contained in over 50,000 audio files. They were never caught.
9YAE7 TIL that the Soviet gold medalist Elena Mukhina was forced back to practice with an unhealed broken leg, which didn't give her enough power to do a flip and broke her neck on the mat making her quadriplegic for life in 1980. After the accident she said "Thank God I don't have to go to the Olympics".
yM8v TIL the longest labour in the world was 75 days and the mother had to lie upside down the entire time.
7rwEx TIL we don't really have a clear understanding of how the Moon formed. There are theories ranging from a planetary collision billions of years ago, to a multitude of smaller collisions resulting in enough mass for it to form. But even then, our moon behaves differently than others in our galaxy.
oBeGW TIL the state of Maryland used to have a colony in Africa named the Republic of Maryland. Also known by Maryland-in-Africa, the country merged into Liberia in 1857, becoming the present day Maryland County.