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TIL that Sharpie can’t make a white permanent marker

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mv6o TIL In Yao Ming’s first game in Miami, the Heat passed out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao was not angry with the promotion because he was not familiar with American stereotypes of Chinese. Yao said he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and guessed it must have been an American invention.
gM4gy TIL of Hurrem Sultana aka Roxelana. She was captured during a slave raid by the Crimean Tatars & taken to the harem of the Ottoman Empire. She rose through the ranks & eventually married Suleiman the Magnificent. She broke tradition as the Sultan only married noble ladies prior.
XEebP TIL that, although the ancient Greeks had a myth in which Prometheus is tied to a rock and his liver is eaten every day by an eagle, we did NOT actually learn about "liver regeneration" (the liver's remarkable ability to regenerate itself) until the 19th century.
R77y1 Short answer: Depends on when you hit it
8mL4 TIL the pool under the gym floor from It’s a Wonderful Life is a real pool, and still in operation today at Beverly Hills High.