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TIL Larry Bird got bored halfway through a game and decided to challenge himself by only shooting left handed. He scored 20 points using only his left hand.

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bgN4 TIL the government only recognized Area 51 as an actual government location in 2003.
4XoP5 TIL Key's matchstick grasshopper, native to Australia, was rediscovered in 2019 after having not seen since 1967. It is flightless, and unlike most other grasshopper species, it is active during the winter. This insect's unique chromosomes were studied extensively by early evolutionary biologists.
EnOV TIL Nintendo is over a hundred years old, having been founded in 1889 as a playing card company.
VBOwp TIL Diatomaceous earth is made from the fossilized remains of tiny, aquatic organisms called diatoms. It is used in pest control to kill insects like bedbugs by absorbing the oils and fats from the insect's exoskeleton
R7Lg9 TIL about Movile Cave, a cave that was cut off from the outside world for ~5.5 million years. There are sulfuric vents in the cave and all organisms within rely on chemosynthetic bacteria that use sulfur as an energy source. >50 species live there, 35 of which are endemic(they only exist there).