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TIL the film director Uwe Boll, who infamously beat up 5 critics in boxing matches, chickened out of a fight against the Internet critic Seanbaby when he learned that he knew muay thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Seanbaby quipped that Boll shied away when he "learned he wasn't fighting a midget".

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