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TIL Anthony Fauci was the captain of the basketball team when he was in High School

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8anWK TIL that US president George H.W. Bush narrowly avoided being eaten by Japanese soldiers during World War II in late 1944 when he was 20 years old. It is known as Chichijima incident.
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