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TIL Shaq served as reserve police officer for LA and Miami (when he played for the respective teams) serving as an advocate to prevent online sexual predators as well as defend against a homophobic hate crime.

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kg6B TIL a programmer at a game company got so tired of producers asking for changes just because they felt they had to contribute, that he animated a flapping duck into the game “Battle Chess”. When the producer reviewed the animations, he said, “That looks great. Just one thing: get rid of the duck.”
4Xn6X TIL that Japanese football fans always clean up their stadium after their World Cup Finals games, a tradition stemming back to the 1998 World Cup.
VBExk TIL that in fall when some tree leaves change color, the brown-red-yellow is actually their real color. The green was the chlorophyll used to absorb sunlight that is now broken down and reabsorbed into the trunk to save energy and reuse for next year's new leaves
XEnXD TIL some minutes have 59 or 61 seconds, known as Leap Seconds, to account for irregularities of Earth's rotation due to climatic/geological events
D18Bv Today I learned they make diapers for ducks and other birds