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TIL the dog who played Air Bud was also Comet on Full House

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WklQd TIL up to 78% of NFL players go bankrupt or fall into severe financial stress within just two years of retirement.
xbZ0 TIL that in one year, a man made fourteen successive trades to turn his red paperclip into a house.
lod9a TIL about Benford's law: if you take natural sets of numbers (like lenghts of rivers, population of cities, financial transactions..), probability of first number is not even. There is 30% probability for number to start with 1, and only to 5% for 9. It is so reliable it is used to defect fraud!
y7rV TIL of John Michell, a scientist of the 1700s, described as being “so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later.” -the first person to propose the existence of black holes and much more.
rRj4y TIL: Rhesus macaques were introduced to Silver Springs state park in the 30s but, now 400 strong, they now harbor a disease fatal to humans.