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TIL Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for portraying Hannibal Lecter in Silence of Lambs, with only 16 mins of screen time (14% of the films length).

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nVyG TIL the main religious text of Sikhism, called the Guru Granth Sahib, is written in a Esperanto-like language constructed from main North Indian languages, Persian and Arabic. Its purpose to connect to a broader audience, and also to have an extensive vocabulary for oral poetry.
0bjL TIL Stanley Williams, co-founder and leader of the Crips, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, after writing several children’s books urging kids ‘not to make the same mistakes he did’. He was executed in 2005 on charges of quadruple homicide.
Eb77 TIL a 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex was bought for $1.5 million by a New York businessman
9w8bM TIL The US Food & Drug Administration has a limit on the number of mites on cheese. The FDA allows 6 mites per cubic inch of cheese because some people are allergic to eating arachnids
raeW TIL David Prowse (Darth Vader) was offered one of two roles in Star Wars by George Lucas. The first was Chewbacca. The second was the villain. Before Lucas had a chance to explain the role, Prowse accepted it. Why? Because according to him people never forget the villain.