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TIL the original ending of “Romeo Must Die” had Jet Li kissing Aaliyah but was re-filmed to where they shared a “tight hug” because, “Mainstream America, for the most part, gets uncomfortable with seeing an Asian man portrayed in a sexual light.”

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5ADB TIL Farrah Gray is the youngest person to have a Wall Street office and is estimated to be worth 20 million dollars. At 13 years old he founded Farr-Out Food which in a period of one year had received food orders of over 1.5 million dollars making him a millionaire at 14.
XExKP TIL that humans have approximately double the lifespan of our ape cousins because of a gene that we evolved to regulate the effects of our meat-rich diets.
gMZXL TIL that Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is considered the first "diss track", as well as being the first recorded use of firearms in a piece of music. These both stem from the cannons at the song's climax, which were representative of the Napoleonic Army's own cannons being turned against them.
rlre TIL that one theory on why we are ticklish is that it serves as a mechanism for developing combat skills. Most often practiced from parent to child, tickling activates vulnerable areas on the body that develop a defensive reaction while producing laughter that encourages the ‘attacker’ to continue.
R5b5j TIL about Peter Tripp, a former record holder for longest awake period (201 hours). Following the stunt, Tripp’s life went into a downward spiral resulting in scandals and multiple divorces. His record was broken 6 years later by a high-school student.