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TIL Michael Phelps no longer holds any current individual world record. An end of an era.

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1axyO TIL that Roald Dahl author of charlie and the chocolate factory and Matilda was the author behind the screenplay for "You only live twice" despite having no experience writing a screenplay except for a movie unfinished called "The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling"
AKBn TIL in 1981 Steve Wozniak returned to the University of California, Berkeley, under the alias Rocky Clark, to finally complete his electrical engineering degree after his success at Apple.
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