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TIL that Ewan McGregor plays Jesus in 4 movies

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6P0J TIL the youngest person to have been executed in the US was 14 years old. A bible was used to boost him up onto the electric chair, and his trial only lasted 2 and a half hours.
wL80M TIL that in 1926, due to the near eradication of predators, 50 million mice flooded into Taft, CA- a 20,000 to one mouse-to-person ration. There were so many mice, that the roadkill from mice on streets made roads too slick for cars to drive on.
DGvr TIL after musician Jonathan Coulton had his cover of “Baby Got Back” stolen for the TV series Glee, he rereleased his cover with the description “cover of Glee’s cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s song, which is to say it’s EXACTLY THE SAME as my original version”.
nROG TIL that Harlan Ellison wrote the Hugo Award winning short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” in a single night. He made no changes to the first draft.
QN0pd TIL that only two people survived a fall through a cumulonimbus cloud. One of the cases suffered severe frostbite and decompression injuries and was trapped in the cloud for more than 30 minutes.