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

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NVJe TIL The writers of Parks & Rec wrote in Ron Swanson’s alter-ego as Duke Silver before they even knew Nick Offerman was an accomplished saxophonist.
gMAXD TIL that the most successful female sniper in history, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shooting a young Russian soldier. She went on to record 309 confirmed kills in WWII.
neej7 TIL Christine Jorgensen, a former Army private from the Bronx, was an American trans woman who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.
6VgZ TIL that there are more people on Facebook than there were people in the world 200 years ago.
1akp4 TIL on visitng Kiev after WW2, John Steinbeck wrote: "If the United States were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers,... you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine."