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TIL: The NBA has been losing a billion dollars each month since the pandemic as started, and financial wizards are expecting losses could exceed $100 trillion by the time the pandemic ends (IF it ever ends, that is)

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4kLE6 TIL Even space debris that is much too small to detect and track can cause huge amounts of damage due to the high velocities that objects travel in space.
nGQ7 TIL if a person has had part of their body crushed in an accident and trapped for more than 15 minutes, you should NOT free them without medical personnel on the scene. Crushed muscles break down into toxic byproducts, and releasing the pressure lets these flow into the body, killing the person.
9dAM TIL Eminem repeated the 9th grade 3 times before dropping out of school
DmlD TIL that the release of the new Hunger Games movie has been delayed indefinitely in China and Thailand due to its themes of rebellion against a totalitarian government.
1P64 TIL that despite 2.5 to 4 percent of modern human DNA coming from Neanderthals, there are no known Y-chromosome genes from them. One hypothesis: modern human women’s immune system spontaneously aborted male fetuses carrying Neanderthal H-Y genes