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TIL: Alexandre Dumas was black

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J1KXQ TIL about “The Asoh Defense”, a term used for taking the blame when you're at fault. It’s named after a Japanese pilot named Kohei Asoh, who crash landed a full passenger jet in the San Francisco Bay in 1968. When asked what happened, he said: “As you Americans say, I f-cked up.”
YDWx TIL “microbeads” used in exfoliating soaps are actually made of plastic (and they are a major pollution problem)
e0Jeg TIL the theory of dinosaurs' mass extinction by a meteorite was proposed somewhat recently, In 1980
QNaGL TIL That The J.R.R. Tolkien served as a second lieutenant in World War I, fighting in the Battle of the Somme. His experiences in the trenches, including illness and the horrors of war, deeply influenced his later writings, such as the desolation of Mordor and themes of friendship and resilience.
PVJe TIL Shortly before his death Stanley Kubrick had all the outtakes and deleted scenes from his films destroyed. Burning “thousands of cans” of film so that no one could re-edit his movies.