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

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b9jDZ TIL Brazilian priest, Father Adelir Antonio de Carli, died after he floated out over the ocean suspended by hundreds of helium-filled party balloons and crashed into the ocean
WkkaB The tiny bugs are marketed as a quick fix, but the body of evidence is miniscule.
e0MXD TIL about the Antarctic Snow Cruiser. An impressive 1930's mobile research base that had a short lived, problem riddled expedition on Antarctica before it was abandoned at the start of WWII. Its current location is unknown.
DQwRD TIL that singer Lenny Kravitz was named after his uncle, a soldier in the U.S. Army who posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War.
Mexx7 TIL: Giraffes face 'silent extinction' as population shrinks nearly 40%