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TIL about the "Osaka Bang", where the citizens of Osaka in Japan will react and sometimes fall over if you pretend to shoot them

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OGPg6 TIL that after the USS Thresher submarine sank & imploded in 1963 due to construction and engineering oversights, an admiral remarked: "...it is important that we re-evaluate our present practices where, in the desire to make advancements, we may have forsaken the fundamentals of good engineering."
JYkYV TIL that Jamie Lee Curtis and her entire family were cut out of her father Tony Curtis's will. Jamie would later go on to star in Knives Out, where she plays a daughter who learns she had been cut out of her wealthy father's will.
wPZ8 TIL that people in England previously called football, soccer.
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