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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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VMVL8 TIL: in 1665 Cambridge University temporarily closed down due to bubonic plague and encouraged professors to escape to the less densely populated countryside. Issac Newton returned had to work from home, and he used this time to create calculus and the theory of gravity.
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