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TIL that Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.

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AD5J7 TIL that after the Russian submarine Kursk sank, a distraught mother of a dead sailor was drugged on camera by an agent with a syringe when she demanded answers from the Navy at a hearing.
wV5J TIL that caterpillars dissolve and “die” inside the chrysalis, so the resultant butterfly could be called a “new” organism. Some even think they evolved from two different ancestors.
6EQVQ TIL Robert Downey Jr. had such a bad criminal record that he was interrogated for 6 hours at customs on his way to the Iron Man premiere in Japan, before being told never to come back again
e0OO6 TIL Jim" Corbett fought Peter Courtney in 6 one-minute rounds at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. This small piece of Round 1 is all that remains and is the oldest surviving footage of a sport being filmed.also making this the first boxing knockout ever filmed
Lk7x9 Today I learned of Sir Anthony Hopkins. Apart from a talented actor, he is also a famed painter and composer. He also has snuck a peice of his work in the film The Two Popes.