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TIL Every NBA Slam Dunk Contest Winners Since 1976

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ZW4v TIL that carrier pigeons only know how to fly back to their home base. The infrastructure that supported this messaging system required regular deliveries of birds between cities and regular release of the birds so they did not imprint on a new location.
4VPw TIL a 15 year old kid has invented a pancreatic cancer detection technique that is 168 times faster, over 26,000 times less expensive and over 400 times more sensitive than current methods…and 100% accurate.
aQx9 TIL that in 1996, a three year old boy fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo. The child was rescued by a mother gorilla who cradled him until the zookeepers arrived.
R7WnQ TIL Toronto's CN Tower has a "Skypod", one of the highest observation platforms in the world at 447m. It is 33 additional storeys higher than the LookOut Level and visibility is up to 160 km (100 miles) away to Niagara Falls and New York State
1Mxd TIL that the Mushroom Houses in Super Mario Bros. 3 already know what item it will randomly give you at the start, therefore picking one box has no advantage over picking the others.