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TIL Viggo Mortensen collaborated with guitarist Buckethead on an album dedicated to Noam Chomsky.

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b6MyE TIL that Horace Tucker, the first mayor of North Las Vegas, committed two murders after leaving office.
BrmKb TIL that Joe DiMaggio was so in love with Marilyn Monroe that after her death he had flowers delivered to her grave twice a week for 20 years
aKQ0 TIL of the Big Mac Index, which helps explain purchasing power parity to the layman. You compare the price of a Big Mac in one country to the price in another to determine if exchange rates are overvalued.
MeDr8 TIL about Joel Youngblood, the only Major League Baseball player to get hits for two teams on the same day. As a member of the Mets, he played an afternoon game against the Cubs. After the game, he was traded to the Expos, which played that night against the Phillies in Philadelphia.
kOPrg TIL that King George V of England was euthanized by his physicians with consecutive lethal injections of morphine and cocaine. This was done without his knowledge or consent.