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TIL Diamond Jim Brady had over 2 million dollars in jewelry, equivalent to over $73 million today

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rpx TIL Hugo Weaving who is in Matrix, Captain America, Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, basically every movie in the last 10 years, is also voices in Transformers, Happy Feet, Babe, and many video games. My gosh what hasn’t this man done and why isn’t he in the public eye more?
epPlL TIL that copra, dried coconut meat which contains concentrated coconut oil, is banned from flights in India due to the risk of spontaneous combustion.
65PZ TIL Navy SEALs brains are trained to alter the way the amygdala processes fear.
yVd9M TIL Korean shoe sizes are just the length of your foot in millimeters
00K5 TIL Guillermo Del Toro left a notebook containing 4 years’ worth of ideas for Pan’s Labyrinth in the back seat of a London cab. The cab driver used a scrap of stationery from Del Toro’s hotel he found in the book to return it. Del Toro gave him a $900 reward.