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TIL that roughly 30 years ago, NBA Legend Spencer Haywood chose $100,000 upfront over a 10% stake in Nike. Had he accepted the original offer, his holdings in Nike would be worth a whopping $8.62 billion.

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GY8GN TIL that in 2002 NASA interns stole Moon Rocks worth $30 million, then drove to a motel and had sex on them, before trying to sell them to an amateur mineralogist from belgium
JWOl TIL that a WWI submarine U-28 sunk after it was struck by an automobile which flew off a cargo ship it had just torpedoed
DjED TIL that dozens of North Korean “ghost ships”, many containing corpses, have washed up on the Japanese coast in recent years.
RXMj TIL a lighthouse keeper’s cat named Tibbles is said to have single-handedly driven an entire species of wren into extinction, making the bird “the only known species on Earth to be entirely wiped out by a single being”.
E5Po TIL that there are 112 (and possibly more) ways of proving the Pythagoras Theorem.