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TIL Jackie Chan was a mere stuntman for Bruce Lee, and Bruce Lee accidentally hit him for real on set. He ended up doubling Jackie’s on-set pay consistently, and even tagged along with him for a bowling game 10 days before his death.

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BmMb TIL Two shipwrecks have been discovered in the search for MH370
ADQd4 TIL of Dr. Frances Kelsey a female Canadian/American pharmacologist working for the FDA in the 1960s who stopped authorization of Thalidomide (a drug that caused the deformation in fetuses) saving countless children and also helping reform standards in the FDA/U.S against pharmaceutical companies
awOdb TIL there is an ethnic group called the Karen people or Karens. About 7 million of them live in Myanmar, and about 8500 in Minnesota.
N71NP TIL the Woolworths store in Australia is unconnected to the historic brand in the UK and the US. The name was registered by the Sydney founders as a dare to see if it would be allowed. Despite the brand name being well established overseas it was available in New South Wales.
KkRB TIL there is a 50 sq. mile area of the U.S. within Yellowstone National Park dubbed the “Zone of Death.” Legal scholars assert that due to certain technicalities involving finding a suitable jury, a person could potentially murder someone and not have to stand trial.