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TIL Ed O'Neill has a black belt in Brazilian jujitsu.

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xBA1 TIL that there IS such a thing as transparent aluminum and it is a viable replacement for bulletproof glass.
8adoL TIL that Finland doesn't have any official national anthem. The one unofficial they have has lyrics in Swedish and the same music as the Estonian official national anthem.
oRgX8 TIL that wind and solar are the fastest growing electricity sources in history.
AELg TIL Steven Spielberg initially considered filming Schindler’s List entirely in German and Polish, but decided he “wanted people to watch the images, not read subtitles. There’s too much safety in reading. It would have been an excuse to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else.”
LQQY0 TIL Great Britain was an enthusiatic supporter of the Monroe Doctrine (stopping further colonisation of the Americas). In fact, for many years after the doctrine took effect, Britain was the only nation enforcing it, as the U.S. lacked sufficient naval capability.