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Eg8B7 TIL 5-division Boxing Champion James Toney claims to have knocked out a young Deion Sanders at football camp over bunk beds.
J16n1 TIL that Steven Spielberg is an accomplished Eagle Scout and started filming by taking his dads movie camera on scout trips. At age 17, he wrote and directed his first independent film called Firelight that would later inspire Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
VBAbk TIL that when Black South African soldiers returned home after serving in WW2 they were offered bikes and shoes for their service. Whereas White South African soldiers had brand new homes built for them by the government.
xV5ok TIL that Matthew Perry doesn’t remember filming three seasons of Friends due to his alcohol and Vicodin addiction, leading to a drastic weight loss and two rehab stints in his twenties.
YpB5d TIL There are two types of lightning strikes - positive and negative. Negative accounts for 95% of lightning strikes, while positive accounts for 5%, and is much more powerful and dangerous, and is more likely to cause forest fires.