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TIL famed Mexican wrestler El Santo's brother was actually the one that innovated a high-flying style of wrestling whereas his impact went beyond the ring and into film.

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GAPpE TIL actor John Larroquette was the uncredited narrator of the prologue to the 1974 horror movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In lieu of cash, he was paid by the Director Tobe Hooper in Marijuana.
e0jQk TIL In 1858, Swiss astronomer Johann Rudolf Wolf published his formula for determining the daily sunspot number: k(10g + f); where g is the number of sunspot groups; f is the number of individual sunspots; and k is a calibration factor, different for each observer
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