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TIL one of Bruce Lee’s teachers was an illegal bare knuckle champion, undefeated for at least 60 fights. He retired after accidentally blinding an opponent.

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7rveZ TIL that Dim, the rhinoceros beetle from A Bug's Life (1998), had no known reference in nature until the Megaceras briansaltini was discovered in 2007. This phenomena, of nature mimicking art, was coined the Dim Effect by its discoverer.
OGno6 TIL that Harper Goff designed much of the original Disneyland, sets for classic films (Casablanca, Captain Blood, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), and the submarines in Fantastic Voyage and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo’s baroque Nautilus helped inspire the Steampunk movement.
Ygbd TIL 50% of Earth’s internal heat is from radioactive decay. Earth used to be hotter, before elements with shorter half-lives were depleted.
oRW17 TIL that the Earth has been in an ice age for the past 2.58 million years, known as the Quaternary Glaciation.
b6p5a TIL a San Jose couple won in an auction a parcel of land in the most expensive part of San Francisco for $90K. They discovered the parcel was a private road and sidewalk to the homes of San Francisco's elite and it was up for auction because the neigborhood's HOA didn't pay taxes on it for 17 years.