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TIL only 8 teams have won the NBA championship in the last 30 years

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7rprZ TIL that sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years
N7d4P TIL two nurses, hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor in the same Florida hospital found out that they were actually long-lost sisters from Korea who had been separated for almost 40 years
YpP7W TIL in May 1980, after blood tests found a significant portion of Love Canal residents suffered chromosome damage from toxic waste buried under their homes, homeowners, upset over lack of federal action, held two EPA officials hostage. This action spurred the federal Superfund program to be passed.
evg4 TIL in 1861 a slave took over a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He was then given the ship to command during the Civil War.
6E5vJ TIL the lyric “they stab it with their steely knives” from “Hotel California” by the Eagles is a nod to Steely Dan for the free publicity they gave them when the Eagles were mentioned in a lyric from Steely Dan’s song “Everything You Did” which goes “turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening”.