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TIL Denis Cyplenkov, an arm wrestling champion and bodybuilder, has the biggest and most densely muscled hands in the world

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9Yw0p TIL of about the ancient sanction of Zaleucus: If someone proposes a change to the law that is rejected, that person gets strangled.
0V5y TIL that ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves
QNvQM TIL the daughter of Shirley Temple (a silent generation icon) was the bassist for grunge/sludge metal pioneers Melvins from 1989 - 1993, who were one of the biggest inspirations of Kurt Cobain (a generation X icon).
oxmW TIL A reddit user, named Alan Schaaf, created imgur. He created it because the available image hosting services sucked at the time.
LkKLQ TIL that “Budweiser” was originally the German name for beer brewed in the Czech town of České Budějovice (German: Budweis). Anheuser-Busch stole the name for its American brew, and the breweries have been in trademark battles ever since. If you order a Budweiser in the EU, you get the Czech brew.