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TIL that Shaquille O'Neal, who was known to be one of the most dominant big man to ever step on the NBA floor had only 1 3-pointer made in his career. He is also a 15-time NBA all-star and a Hall of Famer who averaged 24 points and 11 rebounds in his career.

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KvWQ TIL in 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months.
nMvP TIL that in 2008, natives of the Greek island of Lesbos appealed to a court in Athens to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe sexual attraction between women, claiming that the island’s inhabitants with their 3000 year old history are the true, original lesbians.
xVNjo TIL that soldiers during the Vietnan War reported seeing bigfoot like creatures, which they named "Rock Apes".
O86L TIL from a declassified US DOD document titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ that the DOD wanted to blow up a US Navy ship, down a civilian airliner, crash John Glenn’s spaceship, fake an attack on Guantanamo and stage communist terror campaigns to provide justification for a US military invasion of Cuba.
nemaG TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. carried out Operation Popeye, a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam to increase rainfall and lengthen the monsoon season. After the operation was declassified in 1974, the United Nations banned the weaponization of weather.