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TIL while filming “Predator,” Jesse Ventura saw in the wardrobe department that his biceps were 1" bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s. He challenged Arnold to a bicep-measuring contest…and lost. Arnold had told the wardrobe department to lie to Ventura so he could win the bet.

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WkDaA TIL that Japanese is either written vertically from top to bottom, or horizontally from left to right, or horizontally from RIGHT to left! Sometimes, both vertical and horizontal writing can be found on the same page.
x55w TIL that a German man named Walter Kellner won a writing competition describing an amazing emergency landing in Sardinia based on a true story. An Australian man, also named Walter Kellner, tried to sue him for stealing his own story. Turns out both stories were coincidentally true.
R7756 TIL Harvard’s first black faculty member was a dentist. Dr. George Franklin Grant joined the Dept of mechanical dentistry in 1871. Also an inventor, he patented the wooden golf tee. Previously, golfers carried around buckets of sand, placing their balls on little piles as they went.
pYJN TIL that the Whipping Tom of 1681 would assault women, lifting their dresses and slapping their buttocks while yelling “Spanko!”.
eZnE TIL oral sex was illegal in Canada… Until it was legalized in 1969.