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TIL the 1992 Olympics US basketball team (the “Dream Team”) has been called “the most dominant squad ever assembled in any sport”. Magic Johnson said “I look to my right, there’s Michael Jordan … I look to my left, there’s Charles Barkley or Larry Bird … I didn’t know who to throw the ball to!”

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Wk9E9 TIL- In Oymyakon, Russia, the average winter temperature is -58F. In 2013, a record low of -98F was recorded. During the winter, residents keep their cars running at all time and food is often eaten raw or frozen. Schools in the area remain open despite temperatures in the -40s.
rN6gx TIL a 2016 study found mushrooms to be the safest recreational drug. Of the more than 12,000 people in the study who reported taking mushrooms, only 0.2% needed emergency medical treatment.
VMeVp TIL the silent P in the word "ptarmigan" has absolutely no reason to be there. The bird's name comes from the Gaelic "tàrmachan" ("croaker"), but in 1684 the Scottish naturalist Robert Sibbald decided to add a p in front to make the word look more Greek.
Kwdw TIL Anomalocaris, an ancient Cambrian predator, was mistakenly classified as three species in different phyla for over 50 years. As it decomposed, its body broke into three separate parts, whose fossils were classified as a jellyfish, a sponge, and a shrimp.
Oo1Oa TIL Georges Seurat's 1886 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is composed of millions of tiny dots rather than brush strokes.