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TIL Jesus had four brothers and several unnamed sisters and the Church attempted to discredit this theory ever since the Bible existed

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Rpjl TIL during the filming of Maidstone (1970) actor Rip Torn struck fellow actor Norman Mailer with a hammer, resulting in a brawl between the actors in which Mailer bit into Torn’s ear and Torn furiously choked Mailer on the ground. The scene was captured on camera and is in the final cut of the film
pY5l8 TIL Glass fiber dresses were a fad for a few years in the 1890s, and the NYT even predicted they’d be more popular
xROg TIL that 20/20 vision isn’t actually “perfect”, and that professional baseball players average around 20/12 vision; greater acuity than conventional eye charts test for.
Brk8x TIL that the robot suit in the 60's TV series Lost In Space had a built-in ashtray. The suit was so difficult and painful to get in and out of that the actor Bob May would just stay inside and have his smoke breaks in the suit so needed a place for his ashes and butts.
LQmA0 TIL Nissan was losing money for 8 straight years until Carlos Ghosn made it profitable in just 3—after vowing at the Tokyo Auto Show that the board would resign if he failed.