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TIL during the filming of Blue Collar, in response to Richard Pryor's over-lengthy improvisation, Harvey Keitel flung an ashtray directly into the camera to deliberately ruin the take. Pryor and his bodyguard then proceeded to get into a fist fight with Keitel before the director broke up the fight.

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Z8Qo4 TIL of Sir David Brailsford, a British cycling coach who theorizes if you make a 1% improvement in a host of tiny areas, the cumulative benefits will be extraordinary. Utilizing this theory of "marginal gains"; his teams have won 18 gold medals, six Tour de France titles, and 59 World Championships.
9YwLX TIL in the 1800s the dictator of Paraguay made it illegal for whites to marry other whites, creating a country where almost everyone was part Spanish, part native Guarani.
rNaW4 TIL Jerry Lawler of WWE fame began a feud with comedian Andy Kaufman, wrestling him and slapping him on TV while Kaufman shouted profanities and threw coffee in his face. Later, as himself in Man on the Moon, he stated that his feud with Kaufman was staged and the two had actually been very close.
rNQke TIL that Spacex's yearly revenue from Starlink is almost 15 times larger than its NASA contracts and in 10 years, Spacex has launched nearly 9000 starlink satellites.
Bo1r TIL that in reference to the biblical figure, Onan, who was condemned for the sin of masturbation, noted satirist and wit Dorothy Parker alleges she also named her canary Onan “because he spilled his seed on the ground”.