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TIL an average NFL game has just 11 minutes of play
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TIL When Capcom suggested Jean-Claude Van Damme to play all-American character Guile in the Street Fighter movie, the director said "What about his accent?" Capcom responded "What accent?" unaware he had one as all his films were dubbed in Japanese
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TIL about Mike Malloy. Known as “Iron Mike”, “Rasputin of the Bronx”, or simply “Mike the Durable”, he survived multiple attempts on his life by "acquaintances" to collect insurance money. They ultimately succeeded in killing him, but were convicted of their crimes.
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TIL Alan Tudyk has voiced characters in every Walt Disney Animation Studios film since 2012.
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TIL the physicist Arthur Holly Compton, whose "scattering" experiment showed that photons have momentum, invented the "speed hump" on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis
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TIL in 2000 a lawyer in Moscow defending an American accused of espionage delivered his closing arguments in 12 pages of iambic pentameter verse.