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TIL Bruce Lee died in the middle of making a movie called Game of Death

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XEEXQ TIL While in Vietnam, 20 percent of US servicemen became addicted to heroin. Only around 7 percent used heroin after returning to the U.S. and only about 1-2 percent had a relapse, even briefly, into addiction
nWLNd TIL that Alexander the Great once put on a staged naval battle using his favorite food as their weapons, apples.
X046j TIL that in Ancient Greece, when Cimon was given a sentence of 'starvation till death', his daughter, Pero, kept him alive by breastfeeding her own father
OG0OY TIL about the Witches Well, a (now) dry fountain installed outside Edinburgh Castle, in 1894, to memorialize the thousands of victims, mostly women, accused of witchcraft who were burned at the stake, nearby. It is the only such memorial to these victims in Scotland.
pY7dG TIL that chickens lay eggs through the same opening in their bodies that poop comes out of