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TIL that director Oliver Stone was high on mushrooms during the filming of Natural Born Killers.

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epgek TIL the theory that dinosaurs were driven to extinction by an asteroid was only proposed as recently as 1980.
v1g4R TIL There is no US Army base named for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the US, Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, 16th Chief of the Army, and champion of Civil Rights.
loyr5 TIL that when Leonid Brezhnev was the head of government of the Soviet Union, he awarded himself the Hero of the Soviet Union for his birthday in 1966, 1976, 1978 and 1981
8eBWa TIL there are 352 million discovered knots
Jx8 TIL while running for Sheriff in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head so that he could call the conservative, crew-cut wearing incumbent his “long haired opponent.”