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TIL a statue of ‘homeless Jesus’ sleeping on a bench was installed in Orlando where the homeless are banned from sleeping on benches

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E4ao TIL Bruce Spence was the only actor to appear in all three final films of three major trilogies: the Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, and Star Wars.
e4QD TIL Chartreuse is a 110 proof liquor made by Carthusian Monks since the 1700’s.
VB7mB TIL George Carlin’s 1972 “Seven Dirty Words” routine (“shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits”) led to a 1978 Supreme Court case affirming FCC power to regulate indecent broadcasts. Carlin defended “tits” as too harmless for the list, joking it sounded like a snack food.
9YxJD TIL about Captain Midnight, a Florida man who hijacked HBO’s satellite to protest their high prices.
jlJX TIL Officially know as the first famous bodybuilder and the father of modern bodybuilding, Eugene Sandow, born in 1867, immediately became a phenomenon with his unprecedented combination of muscle quality and strength. His beautifully symmetrical and densely muscular physique made him famous.