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TIL legendary multi-sport athlete Jim Thorpe not only professionally played baseball, football, basketball, and gold medaled in the decathlon and Pentathlon, but also won the 1912 intercollegiate ball room dancing championship

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xVMZ0 TIL: The universe is getting bigger and everything is moving away from each other
9w8O7 TIL: Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995.
5V508 TIL of J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree, who after his wife passed and seemingly with nothing left to live for decided to commit his first bank robbery at the age of 86. Red blamed banks for making him bankrupt and by the time he passed away in 2004 he had robbed 2 more banks.
R58b9 TIL a study found that men wash their hands much less often than women after using the bathroom. 15% of men don’t wash their hands at all. Of those me. that did, only 50% used soap. 7% of women didn’t wash and 78% used soap.
W7Qm9 TIL the movie, "The Accused" (1988) staring Jodie Foster was based on the real life events of Cheryl Araujo, who a few years after the event, tragically died in a car accident under suspicious circumstances.