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TIL that Kobe Bryant’s parents had to cosign his first NBA contract, because he was only 17 when he was drafted.

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4XddR TIL that in 2006, 20,000-year-old fossilized human footprints were discovered in Australia which indicated that the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, barefoot, in the sand.
xJKD TIL Christine Maggiore was an activist with HIV who said it didn’t cause AIDS. She convinced thousands of people not to test for AIDS and to have unprotected sex. When she got pregnant she didn’t use medication to prevent the risk of transmission; her daughter died at age 3. Maggiore died of AIDS.
DQ7g TIL the religious head of the Islamic Center of France, during WWII, helped more than 1000 Jews by providing them fake IDs
D1gkY TIL that in 1981 the Pentagon spent $6 million trying to determine whether or not burning a photograph of a Soviet missile would destroy the actual missile
dgOB TIL that 92% of fetuses with trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) are terminated in Europe.