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TIL that Bruce Lee’s famous one-inch punch was a demonstration of biomechanics, allowing him to generate significant force from minimal distance.

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neOWo TIL rubbing alcohol makes open wounds sting because it lowers the temperature threshold of heat-detecting VR1 receptors--so much so that your own body heat triggers a burning sensation
MenRb TIL in 1961 the entire U.S. figure skating team died in an airplane crash - causing a mandate still in effect that no team travelling to international competition would be allowed to fly together ever again
RlG8 TIL there was a German Shephard called Gabi that operated as a guard dog at the Belgrade Zoo and managed to defeat an escaped jaguar
b9elN TIL about Endometriosis. An excruciatingly painful condition in which uterine tissue is shed and grows on intestines, chest, bladder and elsewhere. That tissue goes through the same process during menstruation, which means the tissue sheds, bleeds, and causes inflammation anywhere it has attached.
LwQ9 TIL some of the first German Soldiers captured at Normandy on D-Day were actually Korean. They had been pressed into service by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets, then captured by the Germans, then captured by the Americans.