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TIL that Shakira was rejected from the school choir because her music teacher said that she sounded “like a goat.”

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Gw07 TIL NFL defensive tackle Amobi Okoye is the youngest player ever to play in the NFL. After testing into 9th grade at 12 and graduating at 16, he chose to play NCAA football at Louisville (though he was accepted to Harvard) before graduating early and being drafted by the Texans at the age of 19.
bR99 TIL that runways have to be longer at higher altitudes. The worlds longest runway is 18,045 feet long, located at a tiny airport in Tibet.
KYyrR TIL 20 of 33 states with a state beverage have selected milk 🥛
XloD TIL that Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball avoided using ethnic jokes, as well as humour based on physical handicaps or mental disabilities during the run of “I Love Lucy” due to a belief in “basic good taste”
nnRB TIL American painter Tyree Callahan converted an old typewriter from the 1930s into a machine that prints colors instead of letters; from this he has typed out a series of colorful landscape paintings