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TIL: Bob Young, a 1936 Olympian who ran with Jesse Owens, gave Adolf Hitler the finger

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ADkBd TIL in 1935 a recently-captured shark vomited up a tatooed human arm. When a medical examination of the arm revealed it had not been bitten off by the shark but had been removed from its body in a non-surgical procedure, the focus of the investigation turned to murder.
QNk69 TIL In Jumanji, the actor that plays Alan's (Robin Williams) dad also plays the hunter that tried to kill him
g5LD TIL Vincent van Gogh painted “Starry Night” while he was in an insane asylum.
rRBJy TIL critics complained that a bronze statue of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal standing in San Francisco's Civic Center more closely resembled the Sumerian king Gilgamesh.
1abW4 TIL famed Grateful Dead sound engineer Better Cantor Jackson lost over 1000 original board tapes when her storage locker was liquidated in a sale. Some of the tapes inside crates were purchased by a teacher who tried to sell them for $1 million despite being offered $100,000 by the band.