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TIL Bruce Lee was born in both the HOUR and the YEAR of the Dragon

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KO5Ga TIL That archaeologists in China found a surprising haul in one tomb, where they uncovered a bronze cooking pot. When they opened the pot, they found 2,400-year-old bone soup. Because of oxidization, the soup turned green, but it was still in liquid form, and the bones were still floating on top.
1aEV4 TIL that kudzu, the horribly invasive species of vine in the American southeast, was imported from Japan in the 1800's.
m1nMv TIL that Hitler was jeered by an angry crowd in Hof, near Nuremberg in 1941-the only time he was opposed to his face in public during his 12 years of rule.
Vndm TIL in 1988, Cuba was the only non-African nation to lend military support to anti-apartheid forces in South Africa that led to the successful defeat of US-backed mercenaries, and is an “example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.”
A1jw TIL: Spain Cheated in the 2000 Summer Paralympics, 10 of the 12 players on their roster “were encouraged to pretend to be stupid” and had no mental disability.