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TIL that Danny Trejo was a drug addict as a child, did 11 years in San Quentin where he was the lightweight and welterweight boxing champion before he became an actor.

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6EgeX TIL that George RR Martin is a big fan of football, but not of Coach Belichick and the Patriots. In "A Dance with Dragons", he even references the 2007 Superbowl where the Patriots fell after a perfect season to the Giants, naming a character "Belichio" who gets eaten by giants.
J1yDV TIL that modern birds come from four distinct lineages that survived the asteroid impact.
PYK9J TIL about Hemigrapsus estellinensis, an extinct species of crab that lived solely in a small saltwater spring in the Texas panhandle, 500 miles from the ocean. Probably a relic of the Pleistocene Era, the species was wiped out when the U.S. Army built a dike around the spring in 1964.
GYLw1 TIL that our current smartphones have a power of calculation far superior from the one the NASA had to send man in space during the 60s
8ajL4 TIL about the Johnson Treatment, a strategy used by Lyndon B. Johnson to get legislation passed. Johnson, who was 6'4", would invade the personal space of the target and issue a disorientating stream of flattery, threats and persuasion that would leave the target unable to counter.