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TIL that in China it’s disrespectful to name your children after your relatives because you’ll spend much of your life talking down to a child with the same name as someone you should be respecting.

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awWw0 TIL that during a concert in Ireland, Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth) drunkenly dedicated a song to "the cause" and yelled "give Ireland back to the Irish!". A riot then broke out between the Catholics and Protestants and Megadeath had to travel in a bulletproof bus.
DQgvV TIL that the falcon punch is a real thing. Due to their rather small beaks and talons, falcons don’t have the luxury of swooping down and snatching up lunch. So instead they dive bomb at speeds over 200 MPH, make a fist with their talons and just punch the shit out of whatever their hunting.
WbN4 TIL that the body of Leon Czolgosz, Assassin of President McKinley, was dissolved with acid after his execution
4kmxR TIL that in 2000, Pope John Paul II became a Harlem Globetrotter
Na4M TIL Scenes in the movie Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor and the T-1000’s facsimile of her are in the same shot aren’t CGI. Rather, it is Lina Hamilton and her non-actress identical twin sister, Leslie Hamilton, who acts as a very realistic body double.