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TIL Bruce Lee could perform one hand push-ups using only his thumb and index, perform 50 reps of one arm chin-ups, and throw a single grain of rice in the air and catch it with chop sticks.

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GGVE TIL After Franklin Roosevelt called Joe Kennedy, father of JFK, to Washington, D.C. to clean up the securities industry, somebody asked FDR why he had tapped such a crook. “Takes one to catch one,” replied Roosevelt.
8aZyK TIL that Scotchgard was discovered by accident. Patsy Sherman, a chemist at 3M, dropped a chemical substance on one of her shoes while she was trying to develop a rubber material that could stand up to jet fuel. Later, when her shoes got dirty, she noticed that one spot stayed clean
6E917 TIL that a would-be suicide bomb attack in Moscow was averted because a spam text detonated the bomb and killed only the bomber before she reached the targeted location.
RV94 TIL that out of the seven independent companies created by the breakup of AT&T in 1982-84, four are back in the hands of AT&T.
OGLGX TIL that lower testosterone has been scientifically proven to be associated with leftist beliefs