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TIL Justice Antonin Scalia died on the same ranch they filmed “There Will Be Blood” and “No Country For Old Men”

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K5ma TIL while searching for drugs in NYC, Jimi Hendrix was kidnapped by"wiseguy wannabes"looking for a quick ransom. When a mobster heard about this, he quickly got them to release him by threatening to kill them. Later the mobster tracked down the kids and “gave them a beating they would never forget”
7PjX TIL That George R.R Martin still writes using a DOS-based word processing application released in 1978. (WordStar 4.0)
nOVY TIL four identical clones of Dolly the sheep (Daisy, Debbie, Dianna, and Denise) are still alive and healthy at nine years old
rlm4 TIL, Koreans reckon the pregnancy period as one year of life for infants, and age increments increase on New Year’s Day rather than on the anniversary of birthdays. Thus, one born immediately before New Year’s Day may only be a few days old in western reckoning, but two years old in Korea.
4XaQJ TIL That H. R. Giger's Name Is Pronounced Geegur Not Gaigur