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TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time scoring leader, made exactly one three-point bucket in his entire professional career.

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grP88 TIL Finland used a lot of resources and logistics during WW II to bring the fallen to their home parishes for a proper funeral, instead of using mass graves in the battlefield.
1aQpr TIL Charles Manson studied 150 hours of Scientology before deciding the religion was "too crazy" for him.
7LM TIL much of what we know about pirates comes from a single primary source with questionable reliability.
wLxYM Today I learned that the original eraser was stale bread and erasers are pink because of pumice: Guide to Erasers
PNZL TIL many Rabbis and historians now believe Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred.