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TIL Only 2% of NCAA athletes move on to the professional level.

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kOLQe TIL about the Golden Thirteen, a group of African American sailors who were selected during WWII to be the first African American commissioned officers in the US Navy. Their OCS class average was 3.89 out of 4.0.
wEEM TIL that Sinbad and Arnold Schwarzenegger improvised a lot of their banter in the movie “Jingle All the Way.”
ADEjg TIL that Gustav Holst composed an orchestral suite, The Planets, with seven movements, one for each of the non-Earth planets. The piece was composed in the 1910s and Pluto was excluded because it wasn't discovered until 1930. The piece remains accurate even today... for now.
nZDd TIL that apple orchards rent thousands of bees in hives from bee keepers to pollinate their trees in the spring. After a couple weeks when the trees have been pollinated the bee keeper comes back for his hives and transports them to the next orchard in need.
jNKDa TIL that the jolly fat person that people generally associate with Buddha is actually a different person - a Buddhist monk named Budai. Buddha himself is not usually depicted as fat.