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TIL Mark Ruffalo was placed on US terrorism watchlist in 2010 for standing against natural gas drilling

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mxPov TIL that one-fourth of all of the bones in your body are in your feet—which are made up of 26 bones and 33 joints each—for a grand total of 52 bones in each foot.
QjyM TIL Alec Baldwin offered to do the voice over of himself in Team America: World Police, despite that it was making fun of him, but was turned down.
AVg7 TIL in 2011 a 75-year-old woman digging for copper cut off internet to all of Armenia
N7gPe TIL the drug quaalude was named after a combination of the phrase “quiet interlude”
8eRd4 TIL award-winning writer William Goldman would make up bedtime stories for his daughters (4yo & 7yo). One of them wanted tales of princesses, the other wanted brides, so he combined them. These stories became his next book: "The Princess Bride"