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TIL that the same lawyer who worked with Grumpy Cat also represents the intellectual property rights of Mike Tyson’s face tattoo

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eZ6 TIL that Christopher Robin, on whom the Winnie the Pooh character is based, grew to resent his father for associating him with the stories.
wXA1 TIL that the furnace used by glass blowers to reheat the glass during the blowing process is called a “Glory Hole”.
YpB8A TIL "The China Syndrome" film about a nuclear reactor meltdown was released just 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown catapulting the film into a blockbuster hit
oRpNA TIL an indigenous man, whose family lived in Hong Kong before 1898, gets free land from government to build his home.
raMw TIL that Al Gore’s father once proposed, in Congress, “something cataclysmic” be done to end the Korean War. His suggestion involved creating a radiation belt on the 38th parallel using atomic bombs to turn the border of North and South Korea into a permanent toxic wasteland.