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TIL that Dutch, one of the Cobra Kai in the original Karate Kid, is Steve McQueen’s son.

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mxrvY TIL Dick Seaman became a Nazi sporting legend after he was hand picked by Adolf Hitler to become a racing driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937
b9MA0 TIL that in some sign languages, signers use their mouth to create visual syllables in combination with their hands to create signs.(Mouthing)
YZnB TIL Stone Temple Pilots formed when singer Scott Weiland and guitarist Rob DiLeo met at a concert. They began discussing their girlfriends and eventually realized they were both dating the same girl. Instead of letting this come between them, they both dumped the girl, bonded over it and formed STP.
MeAZ7 TIL about the Dyatlov Pass incident where in 1959, 9 experienced hikers mysteriously died in the freezing Ural Mountains after fleeing their tent. Most were in their underwear, 1 had a fractured skull, another had tongue and eyes missing. Circumstances remain a mystery to this day.
ywQJ TIL critics of early locomotives feared that women’s bodies were “not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that women’s uteruses would fly out of their bodies as they were accelerated to that speed. Others suspected that any human body might simply melt at high speeds.