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TIL Michael Buffer has made over $400M by licensing the use of his trademark catchphrase, “Let’s get ready to rumble!”

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0dG4R TIL A Polish destroyer ORP Piorun, single handedly charged the Battleship Bismarck, a ship 23 times the weight, and transmitted the message "I am a Pole" before opening fire. Another story states the vessel constantly transmitted this message at the Bismarck for the entire engagement
gW6W TIL that the initial probability of getting shot in the first round in Russian Roulette is not 1 in 6 , since the weight of the bullet makes the spinning cylinder more likely to stop with the bullet at the bottom.
eaMJ TIL on January 15, 1919, in Boston a large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore. Residents claimed that on hot summer days, the area still smells of molasses.
yVkev TIL that Skandar Keynes, who played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.
mxYeE TIL when Les Miserables was published in England, Hugo telegraphed his English publishers a one-character query: "?". They replied: "!".