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TIL Junius Kellogg halted the largest point-shaving scandel in college basketball in 1951; later he became a successful wheelchair basketball coach after becoming paralyzed in an auto accident while playing for the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Bg4Bx TIL that in 2003, a 14-year-old boy in Manchester, England, created fake online personas to manipulate his friend into attempting to murder him, resulting in the UK's first conviction for inciting your own murder.
Bx7e TIL multicellular life only has 800 million years left on Earth, at which point, there won’t be enough CO2 in the atmosphere for photosynthesis to occur.
Mr4m TIL the 6th most popular boat name in the U.S. in 1995 was “Wet Dream.”
yVvoM TIL that author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn) were next door neighbors.
XbOj TIL Mark Twain hated Jane Austen with a passion, saying, “Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”.