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TIL Anthony Hopkins has Aspergers

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VBgnZ TIL that 12 million barrels of oil are used to produce plastic bags in the U.S.
nXKW TIL That Wagon trails from the Oregon Trail are still visible today
JK9j TIL that after Samuel L. Jackson agrees to star in “Snakes on a Plane”, producers tried to change the title but did not because Jackson agreed to do the film based on the title alone.
n0Yd TIL Jefferson Davis was never tried for treason in part because the federal government feared he may convince a jury that secession was not illegal.
4kvZ6 TIL when Lee Harvey Oswald arrived in Moscow, he said to the interpreter about his communist beliefs and intention to obtain the nationality of the USSR. For his twentieth birthday, two days after Oswald's arrival, this interpreter gives him a copy of Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot".