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TIL in 2003, 12yo Auri Allen was featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not due to his massive size, nicknamed Baby Shaq. By 2006, he was regarded as one of the top 5 basketball players in the country, until a car crash paralyzed him. He later became a Head Coach and founded his own basketball academy.

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1a9oX TIL: About "domestication syndrome". Only elephants have floppy ears in the wild. Dogs, rabbits, foxes, pigs, sheep, goats, etc have floppy ears only when domesticated.
oRVG7 TIL that it took Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubiks Cube, one month to solve his own invention.
KOLa6 TIL a study has found that people who like bitter foods and drinks are more likely to exhibit psychopathic, antisocial and sadistic personality traits.
J1wZV TIL Women's United Soccer Association was the world's first women's soccer league were all players were paid as professionals. The league was founded in 2000 and folded in 2003 after making cumulative losses of around a USD100 million.
awm8L TIL that a 13-year old man from Sweden named Mats Wermelin scored 272 points in Febuary 5, 1974 in a tournament in Stockholm, which is considered a Guinness World Record