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TIL Ed O'Neil is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

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Lkjr TIL John Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without any recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos.
0ZGp TIL that Sriracha sauce (“rooster sauce”) founder Huy Fong started his company in a small office in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, hand-grinding peppers and selling the sauce to friends - he now runs it out of a 655,000 square foot HQ.
5ner TIL the only senator to vote against the US entering the Second World War, after the Pearl Harbor attack, defended her position by saying “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.” Republican leaders from Montana – her state – demanded she change her vote, but she refused.
9YYV7 TIL - Robert Mercer's hedge fund's flagship fund returned more than 35% annualized over a 20-year period and from 1994 through mid-2014 it averaged a 71.8% annual return.
rRVN4 TIL that a dead fish can swim upstream when its body resonates with oncoming vortices.