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TIL that ESPN boxing analyst and trainer Teddy Atlas once held a .38 caliber handgun to Mike Tyson’s head after Tyson touched Atlas’ 11 year old relative on the butt.

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Lll9 TIL That the first spacesuits for the Apollo missions were designed by the bra-maker Playtex, not a military contractor. Their designs were so much better than anyone else’s that they had to be taken seriously.
DPGr TIL in Japanese Mafia, the ritual of cutting off finger for penance comes from the traditional way of holding a sword. The removal of digits starting with the little finger moving up to the index finger weakens sword grip. So that a person with a weak sword grip then has to rely more on the group.
WW74 TIL that in July 1917, the “Red Baron” sustained a head wound during aerial combat that knocked him unconscious. As his plane was spinning back to Earth, he came to and was able to make a rough landing.
Kv5w TIL Sam Jackson had the same amount of screen time in Pulp Fiction as John Travolta yet was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar while Travolta got nominated for Best Actor.
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