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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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OJN6 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.
nWoZP TIL that the Mr Bean episode Do-It Yourself Mr Bean, features him decapitating a picture of Princess Diana. This scene was deleted, after Diana’s death in a car crash.
nepQW TIL Loki was actively pansexual and genderfluid in mythology Loki | Mythology, Powers, & Facts.
ADyEl TIL That in 1762, Benjamin Franklin had a hollow walking stick created that could secretly hold ~1 pint of oil in it. When the head of the stick was pushed down, it would release oil from the bottom. He did this to trick his friends into thinking he had the power to calm waves in troubled waters.
4XkKR When you think about animal migration, what comes to mind? Probably birds in flight or wildebeests moving across the Serengeti. Yet the largest migration on the planet is harder to see—and it happens every day. Ocean technologist and submersible pilot Dr. Erika Montague explains how.