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TIL Mike Tyson offered a zoo attendant $10,000 to open the cage of a bullying gorilla so he could “smash that silverback’s snotbox.” His offer was declined.

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B70D TIL Sochi, Russia, home to the 2014 Winter Olympics, is considered the country’s largest resort city, with a “subtropical climate” and “warm to hot summers and mild winters”
7reKb Dubai is a global business hub and luxury tourist destination that boasts the world’s tallest building and a police force that drive supercars. So how did it get so rich?
OkLL TIL that in 2012, the CEO of Lenovo received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo’s employees. He did this again in 2013.
X06VR TIL starting in 1957 and through the next thirty years, Hanna-Barbera produced 249 individual cartoon series for television—totaling over 1,200 hours of original episodes.
mKEY TIL when a script instructed Leonard Nimoy’s character, Spock, to punch someone, Nimoy felt punching was too undignified for a Vulcan and invented a way for Vulcans to render their opponents unconscious by pinching them. From that moment on, the Vulcan Nerve Pinch was born.