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TIL, James Hong, Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China, not only has almost 400 acting credits, but was a contestant on Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life back in 1950.

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A6E4 TIL Wyoming cattle barons hired a private army to kill smallhold farmers and ranchers in 1892: The Johnson County War
8a0DK TIL That in addition to cars, Mitsubishi also produces rockets to launch satellites and probes for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA).
Me1g8 TIL that a study found that Internet trolls tended to have personality traits related to sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, and that the link between trolling and sadism was the strongest out of all three traits.
BBYb TIL Colonel Remy Van Lierde DFC took a photograph of 50ft snake while flying over the Congo in 1959. Stating the snake rose up 10ft to attack the helicopter he was piloting
Lk4nd TIL after collaborating on the intervention of the atomic bomb, the US promised they would share all of their research with the UK, as the UK had done so. However, the US lost the signed agreement and went back on its word. This meant the UK was the only country to invent nuclear weapons twice.