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TIL Viggo Mortensen and Buckethead made four albums together.

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Jd64 TIL that “Bizarre Foods” host Andrew Zimmern was once a homeless alcoholic and drug addict, who lived on the streets of NYC for a year. It got so bad that he sprinked a bottle of Comet Cleanser around the place so that he could sleep without the rats and roached bothering him.
pYe1Z TIL: Venus and Serena Williams were brought up as Jehovah's Witnesses
jvon TIL during the California Gold Rush, the distinct lack of women in San Fransisco caused gay culture to flourish. Men would often pay for “female impersonators” to be prostitutes.
E1XpV TIL Sum 41 declined a deal to provide a punk cover of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" for Zoolander's gasoline fight scene after watching a screening with the original song as a placeholder. "It’s perfect. You’ll ruin it by us doing a punk version of that."
RlJ6 TIL Comedian Mitch Hedberg’s heroin addiction was so severe that it mangled his right leg to the point of amputation, instead doctors performed a 13 hour surgery to save his leg leaving him with a limp for the rest of his life.