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TIL Jason Statham was a professional diver and even tried to go to the Olympics

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a8BWM TIL that "Billing" (billing and cooing) refers to courting birds touching their bills together or holding each others bills to strengthen bonds.
rNKa1 TIL that Alexander Hamilton Jr., the 3rd son of Alexander Hamilton married an Eliza namely Eliza Knox. Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1816–1889), the 3rd son of James Alexander Hamilton who is the 4th son of Alexander Hamilton married an Angelica namely Angelica Livingston.
nBXY TIL when Nadia Comaneci got a perfect ten for the first time in Olympic history, the scoreboard read “1.00” because the scoreboard manufacturer was told not to add a fourth digit place because “a perfect ten is not possible”
Me9r8 [TIL] Microbiologists recreated a 1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy which kills staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA.
rRwOo TIL that croissants are not a French pastry but an Austrian one. They were originally created in Vienna to celebrated the Christian’s defeat of the Ottoman army in 1683.