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TIL that Bruce Lee had trained his moves to be so quick that he could catch grains of rice in mid-air using only chopsticks.

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R066 TIL that in August 2001, actor James Woods reported 4 suspicious men on board a flight. Those men turned out to be the 9/11 hijackers on a trial run.
BrN9e TIL that 3 banana companies once overthrew the government of Honduras.
b9RgZ TIL on February 5, 1919, Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith joined forces to create their own film studio, which they called the United Artists Corporation.
E159x TIL that you hear your own voice in two different ways, making a recorded version of your voice sound different from the one you hear when you speak.
4J7N TIL Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle. Against the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC he ordered his men to paint cats on their shields and brought 100’s of cats to his front lines. The Egyptian archers refused to fire on the cats as injuring one was punishable by death.