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TIL Jason Segel's nickname in highschool was Dr. Dunk because he won a slam dunk contest

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o4AE TIL in 1987 Lynne Cox swam from the United States to The Soviet Union (Little Diomede in Alaska to Big Diomede) and in the process eased Cold War tensions.
LQkGZ TIL In 1930 Thomas Edison was at the controls for the first departure of a regular-service electric multiple unit train from the Hoboken Terminal to Montclair New Jersey!
OGJ94 TIL that African elephants have been known to bury or assist humans who are dead, sleeping, or injured. A woman once fell asleep under a tree and woke up to find an elephant gently touching her. As more elephants arrived, they covered her with branches. The next morning, she was found unharmed.
JYkW8 TIL members of the Heaven's Gate cult were carrying $5.75 in their pockets at the time of their mass suicide in 1997 in reference to the fare to get to heaven on the tail of a comet in Mark Twain’s short story Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.
Kex4 TIL a teen needing a heart transplant was rejected in part because of his history of juvenile detention. A media outcry resulted in his getting a new heart, and later he died fleeing after a carjacking/burglary/shooting spree.