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TIL that the actor who played Hyman Roth in Godfather II is Lee Strasberg, the "father of method acting in America"

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gr8WD TIL of the Groom of the Stool. A person who was responsible for assisting the king in excretion and hygiene.
R7DO8 TIL That former astronaut Scott Parazynski took a moon rock to the top of Mount Everest. He took the moon rock and a rock from the top of Mount Everest and gave them to then current astronaut George Zamka. He then took both rocks into space on the International Space Station.
X0GpQ TIL the world record for longest stationary manual on a skateboard is 2 hours 55 minutes 22 seconds, achieved by Brandon González in 2017. He trained for six years before his successful record-breaking attempt.
gKkX TIL in 2005 a gang of thieves rented a house posing as an astroturf company so they could rob a nearby bank. It took them 3 months of tunneling 80 meters underground for two blocks before they reached the vault. They walked off with 20,000lbs of cash worth $65 million.
GY4Rj TIL Some frogs reproduce in complex systems involving multiple different species