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TIL When Bruce Lee was 17, he won a Boxing Tournament put on by 12 Hong Kong schools even though he had no formal training in boxing.

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p81D8 TIL The band Heart played in Canada instead of the US for the first part of their career. They couldn't play in the US because their manager was hiding from the Vietnam draft in Canada.
5Y99B TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
gMd9b TIL of the Hadza people, whose ancestors have occupied the area surrounding the "Cradle of Mankind" for tens of thousands of years. Their oral histories are so ancient that it is possible they reference living alongside earlier extinct hominids such as Homo erectus
7PaM TIL- London is now the financial capital of the world, no longer New York City
X0abj TIL that the Czech polymath Jára Cimrman was on track to win The Greatest Czech TV contest in 2005, but was disqualified on account of being fictional