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TIL that Robert Rodriguez's sons are named Racer,Rebel and Rocket

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XEL1k TIL Crocodiles Do Not Die of Old Age
ABng TIL, at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Jesse Owens (3 Golds already in hand) was one failed jump away from not even qualifying for the Long Jump Final. German competitor, Luz Long, placed a white towel 1 foot from the plate & told Jesse to ‘take off from there.’
nblW TIL That Lennart Green, world champion close-up card magician was disqualified from the 1988 competition when the magician judges thought he must have been using stooges to shuffle the cards. He performed the same trick 3 years later, asking the judges to do the shuffling and won.
Wk7x4 TIL the 3 Musketeers bar was originally split into three pieces with three different flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. When the other flavors became harder to come by during World War II, Mars decided to go all chocolate.
m1KgP TIL that bears maintain muscle mass during hibernation by recycling urea - the nitrogenous waste normally removed by urination