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TIL that Boxing star Tommy Morrison at the age of 13 got a fake ID and started fighting in “tough man” competitions in which you needed to be 21 to enter. He only lost one of those fights.

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JYOrV TIL that "Star Wars" creator George Lucas personally funded "Jurassic Park" paleontologist Jack Horner's "Build a Dinosaur" (a.k.a "chickenosaurus") project, a bid to "reverse genetically engineer a living dinosaur using chicken DNA".
nWlJr TIL there's a spinning, floating island in Argentina
jVyn TIL that during prohibition a man used a WW1 German UBoat and would shoot torpedos filled with booze onto beaches
e5V5 TIL pineapples were a status symbol in 18th century England. They were so expensive that you could rent them by the night and take them to parties with you.
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