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TIL that after being drafted by the Utah Jazz, Karl Malone was told to join a parade and made to believe it was thrown in honor of his birthday. It turned out to be a prank by his coach; the parade was for a state holiday which coincidentally fell on his birrhday, July 24.

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jNMdE TIL of Albert Stevens, a house painter that was unwittingly injected with plutonium and survived the highest known dose of radiation in any human
xVa07 TIL that the word “quarantine” comes from the 40-day period, or “quaranti giorni,” that ships were required to wait outside of the port Venice, Italy during the time of the Black Death (1346-53).
WkejB TIL that Danish 1, 2 and 5 kröner coins have holes in them to help blind people differentiate between coins.
L9xQ TIL that through the process of grafting it is possible for one tree to produce multiple types of fruit. One remarkable example is the Tree of 40 fruit that produces up to 40 different stone fruits simultaneously
GANm7 TIL in 1927 Santa robbed a bank in Texas resulting in 100 people turning up outside the bank to shoot Santa.