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TIL the moon pose (facing one's backside to the judges & bending over from a standing position) is the only banned pose in bodybuilding. When it was still allowed, bodybuilders who performed it were labeled as homosexuals & the public accused them of trying to entice the judges which led to the ban.

Lyp0 TIL in 1999, a man broke into George Harrison’s home, nearly killing George by stabbing him over 40 times. His reasoning was that he had been sent on a mission by God to kill George because he was as a sorcerer and a devil.
ynYe TIL that in the Battle of Asal Uttar (1965 Indo-Pakistan war), the Indian army let the Pakistan army think they had retreated, and then flooded the sugarcane fields they camping in overnight, causing the Pakistan tanks sink into the mud. The Pakistan army lost 100 tanks against India’s 10.
4Ge6 TIL Final Fantasy was not named before the publisher, Square, goes bankrupt. Sakaguchi wanted to name it Fighting Fantasy but the name clashed with another title. Wanting to retain the abbreviation FF, as it sounds pleasing to the Japanese pronounced as “efu efu,” he named it Final Fantasy instead.
R79Y9 TIL that Brian Blessed once accidentally punched Peter Capaldi in the face and sent him to hospital as a result.
6E87Y TIL that due to the threat of a one million dollar budget overage Warner Bros. Studio gave up production of the film 'Home Alone' to 20th Century Fox. The film went on to gross 300 million dollars, shattering box office records of the time.