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TIL Michael Jordan missed 12345 shots in his NBA career

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Vpr8 TIL in the Roman Empire, to increase the dwindling population of the upper class, families with three children were given tax exemption. Many sought loopholes to get the benefits without the burden of three kids, resulting in a network of government spies and informers to catch them.
xMZB TIL, Santa Claus in the Marvel Universe is the most powerful mutant ever detected by Cerebro
ReG4 TIL that in the 90’s when Microsoft was unimpressed with a programmer’s performance, they would threaten to reassign them to work on “Microsoft Dogs” an interactive CD-ROM to inform dog owners of the proper care and feeding for 500 different breeds of dogs.
a8v9 TIL that the word “Emperor” in over 30 different languages all stem from Julius Caeser.
LkgV0 TIL that the Russian space agency decided to turn an old space suit into a satellite. The result looked like an astronaut stranded in outer space.