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TIL that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar only made one 3-point shot in his entire career.

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DK8D TIL three 16-year-old girls were able to cut germination time in half and increase dry-mass crop yields 74% by introducing nitrogen-fixing bacteria to non-leguminous crops like oats and barley. The experiment won them the 2014 Google Science Fair.
wPro TIL that in Rome the ruins of Pompey’s Theatre (the temple where Julius Caesar was assassinated) is now a protected cat sanctuary. This important historical site is now a no-kill zone for various breeds of cats to live peacefully
LQyd TIL that in the interrogation scene of The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger wanted Christian Bale to beat him as hard as he could so he could get the real feeling of what was required from the scene.
YprdG TIL that sperm donation has a height requirement
7rL0X TIL, In 1803, France sold 22.3% of actual USA territory for 342,630,531 actual USD