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TIL Bruce Lee avoided baked goods and refined flour, describing them as providing empty calories which did nothing for his body.

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5VObB TIL that British troops developed a diss song against Nazi leaders during World War II titled "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball." It was quickly picked up and sang by Allied troops.
p8wmO TIL Popeye eats spinach because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip.
d8nlj TIL the earliest known drinking straw dates back to 3000 BC to a Sumerian Tomb and was made out of gold. The Sumerians made straws to drink beer.
oRxgA TIL about Shani Shingnapur, an Indian village without doors or locks where residents rely on supernatural protection and community trust to prevent crime.
xVDrg TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. considered running for president in 1968 after being urged to by anti-Vietnam Democrats, but ultimately decided against the proposal as he felt uneasy with politics and considered himself better suited for his morally unambiguous role as an activist.