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TIL Mike Tyson offered zookeeper $10,000 to punch a gorilla that was bullying other gorillas.

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wL558 TIL While filming Predator, Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were 1” bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s. He suggested to Arnold they measure arms, winner gets a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, as Arnold set this up with the wardrobe department
wBGM TIL H. Jon Benjamin, voice actor for Sterling Archer and Bob from Bob’s Burgers, made a jazz album entitled “Well, I should have…” (subtitled “learned to play piano”). He plays jazz piano on the album. He does not know how to play piano.
LQkd9 TIL that "Urban Macrocephaly" is the phenomenon of excessive concentration of population and development of the main city of a country and it subjects the country to fragility to insurrections.
VMkO4 TIL The canaries sent down into mines to detect gas weren't sacrificed but placed in a device to revive them when they succumbed to the dangerous gases.
ADNDB TIL the US was ready to drop a third nuclear bomb on Japan by August 19, 1945. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.