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TIL Bruce Lee could deliver a blow in 5/10 of a second from a distance of one meter (and 8/10 of a second from a meter and a half). It's 1/20 of the time it takes for a person to blink. At the time the standard cameras couldn't cope with the speed of Bruce's blows. His strikes were not visible.

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BryOe TIL George Washington died from cynanche trachealis, aka the croup, mainly due to over zealous Doctors. Washington feeling very sick asked his overseer, Albin Rawlins, to bleed him. Doctors bled him four more times over the next eight hours, with a total blood loss of 40% along with other remedies.
PA5e TIL the Indian rebellion of 1857 started because the East India Trading Company was asking its soldiers to bite the seal off their ammo cartridges, which were sealed with pork and beef animal fats (against Muslim and Hindu beliefs).
NXxve TIL that the town of Talkeetna, Alaska had a orange cat as mayor for 20 years. Stubbs the cat even survived an assassination attempt by a dog.
0wVa5 TIL Fish & Chips was an aid in winning WWII. Sir Winston Churchill saw the comfort food as a 'good companion' and was a dish that didn't get rationed to keep morale up. On the frontlines, troops calling "fish" and allies calling "chips" was an effective way to tell whether you were friend or foe.
jxxX TIL: People credit Barbara Brocoli for the legendary James Bond films when it was actually Albert R. Brocoli (her father) that was the producer up to Golden Eye (Golden Eye was associate producer).