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TIL that Darryl Dawkins "Chocolate Thunder", who was most famous for his two glass shattering dunks, was the first NBA player to play out of high school. He once claimed to be an alien from the planet Lovetron, where he spent the off-season practicing "interplanetary funkmanship" with gf Juicy Lucy.

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ByvW TIL that in 2009, a search by German police for a woman whose DNA was linked to 40 crimes ended with the discovery that forensic swabs had been contaminated by a woman working in the factory that manufactured them
8aeWX TIL about the Batavia mutiny. The 340 survivors of a wreck were stranded on an island off the coast of Australia. A pharmacist leading the survivors had dozens massacred and by the time rescue arrived, there had been a battle for a makeshift fort built by survivors and over 100 people were dead
4k8Nw TIL that Ethiopia has a unique calendar which is 7-8 years behind the rest of the world. The current year in Ethiopia is 2014.
E1brX TIL that photographer Eddie Adams regretted that Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan was perceived negatively after his Pulitzer-winning photograph of Loan executing a war criminal and described Loan as "a goddamned hero."
MeEA8 TIL, that the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer. A 21 year old actress who was shot at her front door by an obsessed fan and later died enacted the Nation’s first anti-stalking Law’s in 1990. In 1994, the ‘Driver’s Privacy Protection Act’ made it illegal to release people’s private addresses.