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TIL Steven Seagal Bragged to Gene LeBell that his Martial Arts Mastery was so Great, he couldn’t be Choked-Out, Gene LeBell then proceeded to Choke-Out Steven Seagal until Seagal Pooped Himself

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ADAGl TIL Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the region we now know as North Carolina was ruled by a fearsome, bipedal, 9-foot-long crocodile ancestor known as Carnufex carolinensis, or the “Carolina Butcher.”
Bg10W TIL “Avengers: Endgame” no longer had the biggest opening weekend ever in a single market by 2021. It was surpassed by a Chinese film called “Detective Chinatown 3” with a $398M opening in China, overtaking Avengers: Endgame’s North American launch of $357M in 2019.
pYB48 TIL that all Fruit Loops all share the same fruit-blend flavor.
b6BDZ TIL Samoa switch from driving on the right, to driving on the left in 2009
W7yk4 TIL the "snake oil salesman" is attributed to Clark Stanley who gained national attention marketing snake oil at the 1893 World's Fair. In 1916 a USDA analysis concluded there was no snake oil in his concoction at all, and that it was 99% mineral oil. He was fined $20 ($543.69 in 2022).