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abZJ TIL Ancient peoples in the Middle East and India tamed Cheetahs and trained them to ride horses.
Z8WBG TIL When Bruce Lee was 17, he won a Boxing Tournament put on by 12 Hong Kong schools even though he had no formal training in boxing.
4kEM6 TIL: Ocean world exoplanets can have oceans so deep that the pressure creates a liquid mantle of exotic forms of ice, such as ice V
WkgLL TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."
m1rnp TIL Jim Varney caught the attention of Disney exec Michael Eisner at the Indy 500 in 1985 after appearing as "Ernest" and getting a much bigger reception than even Mickey Mouse, stunning Eisner. Varney had appeared in hundreds of commercials but this led to his first movie "Ernest Goes to Camp"