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TIL professional wrestler Haku is widely considered by many in the industry to be the toughest and greatest legitimate fighter in the industry. In one encounter, a drunk fan called wrestling fake and pushed Haku, who bit his nose off in response

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R5WYw TIL about the hidden lofts and bunk bed compartments where airplane pilots and cabin crew rest and sleep between their shifts.
OowEg TIL slavery was banned in the colony of Georgia for the first 15 years because the state was intended to help former inmates of debtors' prison become solvent. The colony's trustees didn't have any moral objections to slavery, they just didn't want landowners to become wealthy.
VMKgm TIL of Alexis Benoît Soyer (born 1810) who was one of the first “celebrity” chefs. In addition to creating recipes, he invented a stove for soldiers to use during the Crimean war, wrote books and pamphlets on cooking, and did a lot to help the suffering in Ireland during the potato famine.
w48Y TIL that Sir David Attenborough, as controller of BBC Two, commissioned Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
ZEXp TIL The Titanic had a much more successful sister ship called the “Olympic”. It was the only merchant ship to sink an enemy warship during World War I, after it turned around and rammed a submarine that had tried to torpedo it. The sub sank after it was gashed open by one of the Olympic’s propellers