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TIL Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi from Karate Kid) started out doing stand up comedy. The mother of Lenny Bruce was his manager

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KAwR TIL that nail polish is just car paint with ingredients added to make it less prone to cracking
wPLE TIL there is a Train station in Sweden that uses people’s body heat to warm adjacent buildings
awRvo TIL That a woman experienced a Brazil Nut allergy after the allergen was passed to her from her partner's semen during intercourse. The researchers believe this to be the first case of a sexually transmitted allergic reaction.
Medx8 TIL that on 10 June 1898, mathematician Alice Lee barged into a meeting of the all-male Anatomical Society, measured 35 skulls and found that some of the most well-regarded anatomists had the smallest skulls. These anatomists believed that skull size determined intelligence.
1ko7 TIL the 14th century B.C.E. Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten’s name was so thoroughly erased from history for installing a new state religion that researchers didn’t rediscover his name until they found his tomb in 1907, over 3200 years later.