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TIL: Macaulay Culkin's middle name is Macaulay Culkin
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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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TIL of a natural phenomenon called radiative cooling which the ancient Persians exploited to create ice, even when temperatures were above freezing
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TIL: In 1485 a perfectly preserved body of a girl was discovered along the Via Appia just outside of Rome. Condition of it was so good that it looked that the person was buried yesterday despite being 1500 years old
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TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."
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TIL during the 1980s Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated blood to Asia and Latin America. About 20,000 people contracted HIV from the results. Bayer paid approx $50M USD to the victims, which averages $2,500 per individual.