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TIL that Wayne Gretzky is the only Hockey player to have scored over 200 points in a season, and did so a total of four times. His stunning success as a Hockey player was immortalized in the fact that not only did is own team retire 99, Gretzky's Jersey number, but the league as whole did as well!

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OG6G4 TIL Corporal Nand Singh earned the Victoria Cross in WW2. He captured 3 trenches, killing soldiers with his bayonet despite wounds. He earned another medal in 1947, capturing a bunker by killing enemy with his bayonet. The Pakistanis threw his body in a garbage dump, never to be recovered.
VMPN0 TIL the owner of Walter White's house hates Breaking Bad because fans of the show would throw pizza on his rooftop, the creator Vince Gilligan made a public plea for fans to stop throwing pizzas on the house's roof.
6NrQ TIL that Russia gifted the United States with the “Tear of Grief” or Teardrop Memorial after the 9/11 attacks as a symbol of struggle against terrorism
kJ5gW TIL the biggest ship in the world before Titanic, the Olympic, collided with a war vessel while being captained by the eventual captain of the Titanic Edward Smith. The Titanic was being built at the time and had to be delayed in completion as the propeller shaft had to be transferred to the Olympic
4XWkg TIL there exists a film of Marilyn Monroe performing oral sex on an unidentified man. It was sold at auction for $1.5M to a NY businessman who has kept it private.