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TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times

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6E8JW TIL that Georgia is considered the birthplace or "cradle of wine", where archaeologists have traced the world's first known creation of wine back to 6,000 BC.
xV6Ng TIL if your brain was cut down the middle the two halves would function independently, almost like another person is sharing your body.
vjB4 TIL On December 5, 1933, when the 21st Amendment was passed to end Prohibition, American journalist H. L. Mencken celebrated with a glass of water, calling it “my first in 13 years.”
b1B9 TIL the Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day resulting in the deaths of 847,000–2,500,000 civilians, and 1,484,000–3,886,026 soldiers.
nW9lb TIL that a football player lied to his team about being in graduate school. The Baltimore Ravens thought that John Urschel was taking classes at MIT part time. The team did not know that he was a full-time PhD math student. Urschel studied from the end of Sunday games until practice on Tuesday.