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TIL Kyle and Eric Menendez appeared on a Mark Jackson basketball card taken between the murder of their parents and their arrest.

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vPGbB TIL Stenographers (courtroom typists) don't use QWERTY keyboards. They use a specialized device called a Stenotype that inputs words in phonetic shorthand rather than letter by letter. Skilled stenographers can type over 300 words per minute.
lg4K TIL of the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster which belched out trapped Carbon Dioxide from its bottom in effervescence suffocating every living animal within a 16 mile radius incl. 1700 villagers and 3500 livestock. The blue lake turned deep red from oxidization and water levels dropped by a meter.
G6V4 TIL 90% of Paraguayans speak Guarani, a native American Indian language.
1alP7 TIL that if you are 7 ft. tall or taller in the United States, there is a 17% you are currently playing in the NBA.
R5gp8 TIL Kokura was the main target for the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb, but on the morning of August 9, 1945, the city was obscured by morning fog. Because the order was to drop the bomb visually, the pilots diverted about 100 km south to Nagasaki, killing 35,000 people within seconds of its detonation.