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TIL Shaquille O'Neal gave fellow NBA superstar Paul Pierce his nickname “The Truth” by stating to a reporter after a game against Pierce, “Take this down. My name is Shaquille O'Neal and Paul Pierce is the motherfucking truth. Quote me on that and don’t take nothing out.”

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OomY6 TIL that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent not 1, not 5, but 21 hours, 36 minutes on the moon's surface, after a rest period that included seven hours of sleep.
wLAr8 TIL During the terrifying cholera epidemic of 1835–1836, the island of Sardinia was the only Italian region to escape cholera, thanks to surveillance by armed men who had orders to prevent, by force, any ship that attempted to disembark persons or cargo on the coast
JYmEQ TIL Paul Van Doren, one of the founders of shoe company Vans, dropped out of school at the age of 14, when he was in the eighth grade. Interested in horses, he went to the race tracks every day. His mother then insisted that he get a job in a shoe factory.
VLM8 TIL That in the 2011 UK census “Jedi” was the 7th most popular religion, after Buddhism.
9PRD TIL there exists a practice called Flashblooding, where drug addicts inject themselves with other addicts blood to attempt to keep a high going.