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TIL about combat juggling. A sport that combines the art of juggling, and the natural human spirit of fighting

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6EMKQ TIL Mortal Kombat co-creator and character designer John Tobias originally wanted the character of Liu Kang to resemble a traditional monk- bald and in robes - but wound up using Bruce Lee as his inspiration for the resemblance we see today
KYQDE TIL Olympic runner Carl Lewis was drafted by both the Chicago Bulls and the Dallas Cowboys in 1984
vKmj TIL a documentary aired on the History Channel in 2003 that directly implicated LBJ in Kennedy’s assassination. Lady Bird Johnson and two ex-presidents then threatened the History Channel with legal action and the documentary was withdrawn permanently.
16M7W TIL Pink's hit "Get the Party Started" was written by 4 Non Blondes's Linda Perry, and Pink said in 2017 "You'd have to ask Linda Perry if it's about ecstasy. I don't know what she meant with it. I still don't know if it's 'I'm coming out...' Or 'I'm coming up...' I don't even know what I sang."
knYd TIL that a building called Blok P once housed 1% of Greenland’s population. It was advertised to tourists as “so depressing that it’s almost an attraction in itself.”