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TIL that Frankie Muniz quit acting in 2008 to become an open-wheel racecar driver and currently competes in NASCAR

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QJB8e TIL The scene in Jaws where Matt Hooper is attacked in the cage was actually performed by a 4'9" horse jockey in a smaller cage to make the sharks look bigger.
AD8J4 TIL: NASA creates movie-style posters for astronaut missions, including parodies of Star Wars, The Beatles, and Pirates of the Caribean
woOnJ TIL there is evidence that the panda’s dedicated bamboo diet may have originated at least six million years ago.
W0QL TIL that if you earn more than $25,000 annually, you’re in the top 10% of the world’s income earners. If you earn more than $50,000 a year, you’re in the top 1% of the world’s income earners.
dDjrd TIL Walton Goggins, as a child, once caught a baseball in his mouth, knocking out his two front teeth. A year and a half later, he dove into a pool and hit the bottom, knocking out his two front teeth again.