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TIL that during the 2008 presidential election, author Stephen King referred to Glenn Beck as “Satan’s mentally challenged younger brother.” In the same year he also spoke out against a Massachusetts bill that would restrict the sale of violent video games to minors.

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MjE0 TIL the oldest known tattoos were discovered, using UV light, on a 5,000 year old mummy
woYx7 TIL that Sean Connery (James Bond) turned down Galdaf role on Lord of the Rings and lost 400 million dollars because he didn’t understand the script.
d8Gnd TIL that the King of Thailand's second wife fled to Britain with their five children after being divorced, denounced and accused of abuse and fraud.
X0Jx6 TIL there is a database of 'haunted' houses in Hong Hong, which lists properties where a death has taken place. If a violent death has occurred, the property may lose up to 30% of its value. Once properties appear on this database, it is virtually impossible to remove them.
nkgr TIL that a woman named Rifca Stanescu became the world’s youngest grandmother at the age of 23. Rifca, from the Romanian town of Investi, was 12 years old when she gave birth to her daughter, Maria. Maria, in turn, had her first child, her son Ion, at age 11.