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TIL holding a sword by the blade and using the hilt as a bludgeon was a technique called the “murder strike” in German fencing.

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nWJM9 TIL the black hole, TON 618, is so big (66 billion solar masses), a new term was invented to describe it: ultramassive black hole
De5P TIL that when the scene Kevin Smith wrote for “Live free or Die Hard” was initially rejected, Bruce Willis defended the scene by telling one of the higher ups…“Whose your second choice to play John McClane”?
b6g77 TIL that in the early 20th Century, Chicken was considered a spring delicacy in the USA, raised seasonally by Farm Wives. Then during WWII, red meat was heavily rationed and Chicken Farming became industrialized. In 1930, average Americans ate 10 lbs of Chicken annually. Now we eat 64 lbs annually.
wZe8 TIL in 2013 a doctor in Vancouver tested a disposal program for cigarette butts, offering offering one penny for each butt returned to its booth. It was a huge success and within a few hours over 60,000 butts had been collected.
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