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TIL: William Brewster, leader of the Plymouth Colony in America, named his children Jonathan, Patience, Fear, Love, and Wrestling.

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064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
8aljL TIL the Lion's roar from the Metro-Goldwyn logo is actually made from tiger vocalizations, as "lions don't make that kind of ferocious noise and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic"
b91Gj TIL a Russian experiment attemping to domesticate foxes found that when the animals were selectively bred for 'tameability' they not only bred animals which behaved more like dogs, but they quickly began to look like them too.
X0LwQ TIL during making of the first Hitman game, developers of Danish video game company IO Interactive kept Agent 47 bald because it was too difficult for them to do hair on the main character back then.
8elk4 TIL that it took several years for writer Bruce Rubin to sell the script to Jacob's Ladder, because it was "too metaphysical" and "Hollywood does not make ghost movies". Rubin would later write the screenplay for Ghost, a box office success that grossed over $500 million.