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TIL that Hans Zimmer is Jewish

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41YR TIL that baseball managers sometimes yell nonsense at umpires (e.g. “I had bad wine at an Italian restaurant”) in order to invigorate their teams while preventing themselves from being ejected.
MybV TIL that there is 10 gallons of oil in every tire & roughly 2% of the United State’s annual oil consumption is discarded tires.
mxAmx TIL That one of the most important mathematical books ever written, Principia Mathematica, needed 360 pages to prove that 1 + 1 = 2. The book itself is considered so advanced and hard to understand that it's rarely used in academia at all.
eV7n TIL at the shooting championships in Kuwait last year, Kazakhstan won a gold medal and Borat’s Kazakhstan National Anthem was played at the ceremony
r7vx TIL that the part of John McClane in Die Hard was first offered to 73 year old Frank Sinatra