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TIL Jamie Foxx saved a man from a burning truck. Brett Kyle was speeding and hit a drainage pipe, rolling his vehicle multiple times in front of Foxx’s home. The car started on fire, Foxx cut the seatbelt and pulled Kyle out of the truck seconds before the truck went completely up in flames.

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OoEVL TIL The origin of Shark Fin Soup dish can be traced to the Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song. He established shark fin soup to showcase his power. With the decline of Elitism when the CCP came to power, economy reforms led to middle classes who showcased their wealth by buying Shark Fin Soup.
epNlE TIL of Operation Yellow Ribbon - a plan implemented on 9/11 by Canadian Air Traffic Controllers to protect American targets by diverting potential threats to Canadian airspace.
VBZeB TIL Faqing, a monk during the Northern Wei Dynasty founded a buddhist sect that encourages massacres and chaos. He encouraged people to ‘kill people and cause chaos’, saying that ‘those who kill one person will attain the first level Bodhisattva, and those who kill ten people are tenth level Boddhis
78AOO TIL that the opening scene of Jeepers Creepers is based on the true story of killer Dennis Depue.
RXgQ TIL the Roman Emperor Vespasian hated philosophers, seeing them as “unmanly complainers who talked too much.” One philosopher was banished to an island and still criticized Vespasian, so the Emperor sent a message: “You are doing everything to force me to kill you, but I do not slay a barking dog.”