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TIL shooting point blank mean shooting in a range where you don’t have to account for gravity

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Z8DJ4 TIL: In 1963, Bruce Lee took the basic physical exam for the US Army. And failed.
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W5EL TIL in 1964 Soupy Sales asked kids to “take green pieces of paper from your parents wallets and mail them to [me].” The next day they received eighty thousand dollars.
kJOW4 TIL Lake Constance is the only place in Europe without clear borders as the countries that intersect it disagree over who has sovereignty. Austria thinks they own the lake equally as a condominium, Switzerland insists the border runs down the middle, and Germany's opinion is basically ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
4X7oa TIL Aladdin is Chinese in the original text and the story takes place in China.