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TIL Sean Schemmel, the English voice actor for Goku in the Dragon Ball series once screamed so hard during a recording for a Super Saiyan 4 transformation that he passed out.

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R7jOa TIL Jesse Owens gave 1 of his 4 Olympic gold medals to Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, he gavethe other 3 to a hotel owner in Philadelphia to pay for his outstanding bill at the hotel, and one of his medals sold for $615,000 in Dec 2019.
gMryb TIL In order to rescue Ethiopian Jews, the Mossad bought and ran a profitable scuba diving resort in Sudan between 1982 and 1984. 8,000 people were safely smuggled to Israel.
kBrE TIL the Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets
pYQV8 TIL that listed US Penny composition only adds up to 90%
b6lwa TIL screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network) takes six to eight showers a day to get over writer’s block. If writing isn’t going well, he takes a shower, puts on different clothes, and tries again.