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TIL that Mike Tyson got into his first fight after an older boy had ripped the head off one of Tyson's pigeons

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ODDa TIL almost all of The Hobbit’s character names were taken out of an old Icelandic poem “Dvergatal”
6XkJ TIL the actress who voices ‘Bubbles’ from 'The Powerpuff Girls’ also plays Timmy Turner/Poof, Ben 10, Raven, Princess Clara/Toot, Dil Pickles, Truffles, plus many more video game characters including Rikku from FFX and Harley Quinn from Batman: Arkham City.
xVv5b TIL Despite being apex predators, orcas do not see humans as prey and they are even docile to them in some circumstances. There are no modern reports of fatalities caused by wild orcas.
VmE8 TIL Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, allows any company that can make functioning Star Trek technology to use the name free of charge.
VMmDk TIL chickenpox is a form of herpes