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TIL There are up to 500,000 people of Palestinian descent in Chile

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awJkL TIL Spider-Man could have been a fly. Stan Lee said "I saw a fly crawling on a wall. And I said, 'Boy, it would be great if I could get a superhero who could stick to walls like an insect.'" He considered "Insect Man, Fly Man, Stick-to-Wall Man, Mosquito Man... none of them sounded good enough."
grXDX TIL of Kinamutay, a Filipino wrestling martial art which incorporates & emphasizes biting, eye gouging, and pinching.
QB5X TIL the actress who played the Yellow Power Ranger also plays the (always naked) foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie
ADy9l TIL that the iconic theme to the original Legend of Zelda was arranged in one night from the music used in-game. Nintendo had originally intended to use a reworked version of Ravel's "Bolero", but discovered immediately before launch that the copyright had a month before expiration.
wmnP TIL David Kirwan, 24, jumped into a near-boiling hot spring at 200°F (93°C) in Yellowstone, after his dog escaped the truck and ran into the Celestine Pool and began yelping. Several people tried to stop him by yelling warnings, but he replied “Like hell I won’t!” and then entered. Both perished.