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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary for Terminator 2: Judgement Day was paid mostly by buying him a $12.75 million Gulfstream III jet

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DQgvV TIL that the falcon punch is a real thing. Due to their rather small beaks and talons, falcons don’t have the luxury of swooping down and snatching up lunch. So instead they dive bomb at speeds over 200 MPH, make a fist with their talons and just punch the shit out of whatever their hunting.
GLe5 TIL of the “Women Are Wonderful” effect: that people associate more positive attributes to women than to men, in general. While this attribution was true of both genders, woman’s in-group bias was 4 times greater than men’s.
rNBvW TIL the US House of Representatives and the British/Irish House of Commons used to play matches of chess against each other via telegraph
Yp4Bx TIL of Panyee FC, a club in Southern Thailand that plays on a floating pitch.
yQ48J TIL legendary football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant earned his nickname by agreeing to wrestle a bear for $1 at a carnival when he was 13 years old. The bear bit his ear, and the carnival never paid him $1.