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TIL if you are a 7+ foot tall American male between the ages of 20 and 40, there is a 17% chance you currently play for the NBA.

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R7jM7 TIL there is a term for what we're seeing lately - big companies looking to the government to bail them out. Privatize gains, socialize losses.
kJaAm TIL that International Shooting Union barred women from shooting with men in 1993, after Zhang Shan won the gold medal in Skeet Shooting in 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
r9lM TIL that after a botched circumcision, a boy was raised as a ‘girl’ to prove that gender identity is not inborn. The results of the experiment where catastrophic.
pYagZ TIL that Kurt Cobain would find the value of his guitar hilarious. On MTV Unplugged, he joked about a rep from the Lead Belly estate who wanted to sell Kurt Lead Belly's guitar for $500,000. The guitar Kurt's holding while making that joke sold for $6 million in 2020.
9awm TIL in 2016 the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against United Airlines for denying an employee benefits while on military leave.