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TIL both Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan began their careers in porn.

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nWeno TIL that Ted Fujita of tornado scale fame lived in a city slated to be atomic bombed. Nagasaki was chosen instead, and Fujita's research on the effects of the bombs helped him to understand downbursts and microbursts.
9YG5X TIL Traditionalist Catholic Priest Richard Williamson was consecrated as a Bishop in 1988, immediately excommunicated by Pope John Paul II, un-excommunicated in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI, and then re-excommunicated in 2015 by Pope Francis.
VMV7G TIL that glue used to and still is today made by Melting Horses.
9YjmQ TIL that people of the Yanomami tribe do not generally address eachother by their names. It is considered an insult to call a man by his name by his public - in fact, the Yanomami verb "to name" is a synonym of "to insult".
wo6RM TIL The Mediterranean Race (or 'Mediterranid Race') is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. From the late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, it was widely believed that Mediterranean people were a specific sub-race of the Caucasian race...