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TIL Sean Connery was filming a love scene when his co-star’s gangster boyfriend got jealous and pulled a gun on him. Connery grabbed the gun from his hand and twisted the guy’s wrist until he ran off the set

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QJXXX TIL: Armin T. Wegner who resisted both the Armenian Genocide & the Holocaust. In 1915, he took hundreds of photos of the persecuted Armenians and was subsequently arrested. In 1933, he wrote a letter to Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews, and was then sent to a concentration camp.
wB6o TIL of Johnny Bright, the first black QB to play against Oklahoma State in 1951. Opposing defenders openly made him a marked man during the game. They knocked him unconscious 3 times in the first 7 minutes. After having his jaw broken, he was able to complete a 61 yd TD pass a few plays later.
QPpE TIL there were once $100,000 notes in circulation that are still considered legal tender today
gMB7b TIL In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered “cruel and unusual punishment, like making people eat rats”
woVbJ TIL that after abolishing slavery in 1794, France reinstated it in 1802, only finally to abolish it again in 1848.