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TIL Michael Jordan said the greatest part of playing for the US Olympic team was “learning the weaknesses” of his teammates for when they returned to the NBA.

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6X6J TIL that the aliens from the movie franchise Alien were based off of deep sea creatures found in Earth’s oceans.
MDam TIL that the Cliffs Notes for ‘The Scarlet Letter’ outnumbers sales of the actual book 3.6 to 1.
5VmNR TIL Americans donate the largest amount of money to charity as percent of GDP by a large margin
5YVkp TIL: The term "Patient Zero" was a misunderstanding. It referred to a Canadian man named Gaëtan Dugas, who was linked to the AIDS epidemic in the '70s. He was a flight attendant that scientists dubbed "Patient O, the outside-of-California case". The O was later misinterpreted as the number 0.
WJX4 TIL Nematodes are the most abundant animal on the planet and it’s not even close. They outnumber other animals so much that 4 out of 5 animals on the planet are nematods