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TIL That the "Akira Slide" is the most imitated scene from any movie/tv50 show and has been referenced in over 250 pieces of media.

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PYpwL TIL bone spurs are permanent deposits and do not heal and go away
Brg8W TIL that Byzantium not only developed sophisticated systems for taxation, justice, administration, and military deployment, but is also rarely credited with refuting Aristotle’s theory of falling bodies, one thousand years before Galileo.
kjAg TIL Keanu Reeves had his daughter and girlfriend pass away within 18 months of each other
xVokk TIL Horses killed more people in Australia between 2000 and 2013 than all venomous animals combined. Spiders were not responsible for any deaths during that time.
6ENJ TIL that President G.W. Bush’s great, great, great, great grandfather Obadiah Newcomb Bush was vice president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, supported the Underground Railroad, and petitioned the New York State Legislature to secede from the Union in a protest against slavery.