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TIL while in college Deion Sanders played in the first game of a double header in baseball, ran a leg on his track teams 4x100 meter relay, and then came back and played the second game of his double header all in the same day. He is also the only person to play in the super bowl and world series.

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v1BK7 TIL in 1970, 3 men broke into the zoo in Portland. 1 was mauled to death by lions while showing off by lowering himself into the lions den. The next night, one of the surviving 2, broke in again & shot the lions to death
N7nbb TIL the story of Zeus, a 9 year old pitbull-mix from Montana who was stolen by a family "friend" and found 2k miles away in West Virginia after the thief was arrested. Zeus had a microchip with contact info but was too big to fly so 15 strangers volunteered to drive him home across 9 states .
a8xL9 TIL The US Census has noted that the only two years where the US resident population has shrunk were 1918 and 1944. However overall American population growth was positive in those years when overseas armed forces are included.
e0o4 TIL the US president earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment.
6EgOJ TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.