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TIL that Jerry Springer was born in a London bomb shelter during WWII

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Lolr TIL a 7th grader was ejected from a basketball game for dunking.
MelDa TIL that creatures the size of Godzilla or King Kong cannot exist in real life. If you were to scale up an animal by 10x in each dimension, it would have 100x the muscle power, but 1000x the mass, likely crushing this creature to death. An animal this big would look very differnt.
awG7L TIL that in 1974, a trainee who failed to become a US Army pilot stole a helicopter and buzzed around Washington DC to demonstrate his skills. He intended to personally surrender to President Nixon, and landed on the South Lawn
47Pa TIL that competitive full contact fighting in medieval suits of armor is a thing, and it is brutal.
KLp4 TIL Nicolas Cage once awoke to a naked man wearing a leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed, in his Orange County house. Cage couldn’t live in that house again and moved to the Bahamas.