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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger once pranked a bodybuilder by telling him to “scream” while he posed—the bodybuilder was then escorted out of the competition when he did this.

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OGV07 TIL that India successfully tested its first nuclear bomb on May 18, 1974 under a code name "Operation Smiling Buddha."
geK9 TIL in the 1980’s, a one letter typo cost the Yellow Pages $10 million when they misprinted a travel agency’s advertisement for ‘exotic vacations" as “erotic vacations”
OmVg TIL Pat Riley, former NBA player and now NBA executive with the Miami Heat, trademarked the word “Three-Peat” in 1988. When the Chicago Bulls won three straight championships in the 1990s, he was paid $300,000 dollars in royalties.
8awV TIL that there’s a creature that can survive the vacuum of space, 1 degree above absolute zero, lethal levels of radiation, extreme pressures, and 10 years dehydrated.
Xnar TIL Saudi Arabia has used up all its groundwater and will need to import all its food. California is headed down the same path and so is China.