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TIL that Vin Diesel founded a game studio which has a focus on creating games featuring Vin Diesel

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p8Jn4 TIL about Rachele Gilmore, an understudy in the Metropolitan Opera. With only a couple hours notice, she was told she would be making her debut in Offenbach's "Les Contes Hoffman". That night she hit an A-flat above high C, breaking the record for highest note ever sung at the Met.
X19Q TIL there is a mathematical formula that if graphed will be an image of the formula itself.
kOJ7g TIL in 2008 Dmitry Agarkov changed a credit card agreement to his benefit - and the bank signed it. When in 2010 the bank wanted him to pay late fees, he sued it, as according to the changed deal, it owed him money - 24m rubles (ca. $727k). It all ended with an out-of-court settlement.
X0Vkr TIL that, among many other things, Air Force General Curtis LeMay is credited as being one of the two people that are responsible for Judo surviving World War II. Martial Arts training was banned for the populace during the Occupation of Japan, but LeMay instituted it into USAF training regimen.
0wlZN TIL David Gilmour's 2016 performance at the Pompeii amphitheater was the first live performance with an audience since 79 A.D.