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TIL Georges Lucas’ daughter is an aspiring mixed martial artist with a 4-1 record.

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OXoe TIL the footballer George Best went broke shortly after he retired. When asked what he did with all his money, he said “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds (women) and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
p86jN TIL In 2009 a 70cm fish bit 6 tourists in Switzerland, sending 2 to hospital. Police divers harpooned the zander and offered it to the tourists as compensation.
VBLlp TIL that before there was the Silk Road, the Maritime Jade Road was established in Asia in the second century BCE starting from Taiwan travelling southwest to the Philippines and reaching all the way to Arabia
4kBa TIL that rather than put any items on sale, Louis Vuitton burns all of its unsold bags each year. This is how they keep their product extremely unattainable and upscale; also, 99% of all LV bags you see are fake.
d85kr TIL STOP is an acronym for a short mindfulness which stands for Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed. Its an exercise that can be used when you feel stressed, overwhelmed or when you notice that your mind is just all over the place as a means to ground you back in focusing on what you were doing.