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TIL Bruce lee was a Philosophy Major

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rxey TIL blackcurrant flavour is almost unknown in America because blackcurrant can spread disease to pine trees so was banned for most of the 20th century
6ybW TIL that James Earl Jones declined to have his name appear on the credits of both Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), claiming that he felt his contribution wasn’t significant enough to warrant a credit.
wL7GE Today I learned that surfing was originally called “wave sliding” and it was brought to the mainland US by Olympian Duke Kahanamoku.
YpyBB TIL In the late 1950s, a top secret United States Air Force project known as Project A119 (A Study For Lunar Research Flights) aimed to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
kODr5 TIL Spaniards jokingly refer to former PM Luis Carrero Blanco as 'Spain's first astronaut', because his car was blown onto the balcony of a nearby building during his assassination