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TIL after Sports Illustrated published its “Bag It, Michael” cover story about his lackluster baseball career in 1994, Michael Jordan cut off all official communication with the magazine, even to this day

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QaEa TIL there are about 150 buffalo on Catalina Island. They were imported to the island to film a spaghetti western in 1924 and were never removed.
VMpxQ TIL in 2007, Navy SEAL Mike Day was shot 27 times by four Al Qaeda gunmen and hit by grenade shrapnel, but he killed all four of the gunmen and walked out to the extraction helicopter. He recovered and is living with his wife and daughters.
x69Eg TIL the town of Lincoln, Illinois was named after Abraham Lincoln eight years before he became president. He was the attorney for the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad that led to its founding.
j6GEQ TIL Shortly before Paris was captured by the Nazis in 1940, French engineers cut the lift cables to the Eiffel Tower. German soldiers had to climb the entire tower in order to hoist their flag... which blew away after just few hours. Hitler himself was unable to make the climb when he visited.
EgxP7 TIL In 2015, the UK government paid off its remaining debt of £1.9bn from World War One