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TIL that Viggo Mortensen (LOTR Aragorn) released an experimental music album called Pandemoniumfromamerica which he dedicated to Noam Chomsky.

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4av5 TIL that Scientology isn’t legally considered a religion in all countries. Switzerland identifies it as a commercial enterprise, France and Chile as a cult, and Norway as a non-profit
j0KX TIL that between 1798 and the Civil War, the U.S. Navy lost two-thirds as many officers to dueling as it did to more than 60 years of combat at sea.
Jyaj TIL that when US presidents travel, their poops are collected and protected to avoid analysis which can detect what they ate or whether they have medical conditions.
WD58 TIL each dollar spent on prison education reduces incarceration costs by $4 to $5 during the first three years after a prisoner is released.
lo7LK TIL Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage