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TIL that Team USA Men's Beach Volleyball player Chase Budinger once dunked over P Diddy in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest

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R8dl TIL: There’s an 2,000 year-old analog computer called the Antikythera mechanism
69m5J TIL that serial killer Luis Garavito (killer of 193-300+ children) planned to become a politician, pastor, and pediatric social worker upon his release from prison after the Colombian government reduced his sentencing to 22 years. He died in 2023 just months before he was to be released.
YpYgP TIL Soviet Union spanned across 11 timezones with an area of 8.6million square miles with east to west spanning over 6500 miles and north to south spanning 4500 miles. Russia, the largest part of USSR remains the largest country in the world with an area of 6.5million
D10bJ TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.
NGpP TIL after the US ambassador to the Sudan was kidnapped in 1973, Nixon said he would not negotiate with terrorists; the ambassador was shot 12 hours later.