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TIL boxing trainer Teddy Atlas put a gun to 15 Year Old Mike Tyson’s head and threatened to kill him after Tyson groped Teddy’s 12 Year Old relative.

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MeYXW TIL Keir Gilchrist, the actor who played the lead role in Atypical, is also the lead singer of grindcore band Whelm and death metal band Phalanx.
Egnkx TIL The Stranger (1946) was the first Hollywood film to include footage of the Holocaust. The film's director, Orson Welles, who saw footage at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in May 1945, described the newsreels as "putrefaction of the soul, a perfect spiritual garbage"
nWpmo TIL that a basketball player, Boban Janković, frustrated with his fifth foul, slammed his head into a padded concrete post, leaving him unable to walk for the rest of his life.
wLbyW TIL that hypergolic fuel, similar to that used by the SpaceX mission, is also known as "The Devil's Venom" because of its toxicity.
j6Vma TIL Robert Kajuga, leader of the Interahamwe, had a Tutsi father