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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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7rj1O TIL the lone Supreme Court justice to dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson grew up in a household with a light-skinned, blue-eyed slave who was treated much like a family member. The slave, Robert Harlan, was believed to be John Harlan’s older half-brother. Even John’s father believed Robert was his son.
N7N8N TIL an elephant's trunk can hold 12 liters of water (3 gallons) and weighs as much as 140 kg (300 lbs).
wokQJ TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who survived being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, lost his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
kOJg1 TIL that urine is not sterile, it is a common myth that it is sterile
16pP8 TIL a film adaptation of the best-selling erotic romance novel "Gabriel’s Inferno" was directed Tosca Musk, sister of Elon.