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TIL Bruce Lee the champion Kung Fu fighter, died because his friend had given him aspirin after complaining of a headache. Never taken aspirin before, he did not know he was allergic.

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8e7kV TIL the kitti’s hog-nosed bat, AKA the bumblebee bat, is arguably the smallest mammal, measuring in at 1.1 to 1.3 inches in length and 2g in weight. They are also little home bodies, leaving their roosts for less than an hour a day for food.
R7NXw TIL in the 50s there was a nuclear bomb test in the Australian Outback. Aboriginals thought a spirit killed all of the kangaroos for them. They ate them and died of radiation poisoning.
Px6g TIL that The actors in Planet of the Apes were so affected by the make-up that when not shooting, the actors would automatically segregate with the species they were portraying.
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”
QNyNX TIL that Scots is not just a dialect of English, but a proper language with its own spelling. For example, “efter aw I’v duin for ye” is Scots for “after all I’ve done for you.”