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TIL Viggo Mortensen was asked to reprise his role as Aragon in the Hobbit trilogy, but declined on the account that it wouldn’t be ‘historically’ accurate

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XEg06 TIL Caroline Flack, the late and former host of Love Island UK, dated Harry styles when he was 17-years old, and she was 31.
9wKbp TIL Duran Duran's guitarist and bassist and drummer all had surname Taylor; none were related.
wELo TIL that a Clockwork Orange was inspired after Anthony Burgess’s wife Lynne was robbed, assaulted and violated by deserters from the U.S. Army in London during the blackout. He was denied leave to see her and she miscarried shortly after.
6E75W TIL about HPP (High Places Phenomenon), the experience of a sudden urge to jump when in a high place. Although it has been speculated to be associated with suicidal ideation, data has proposed that it stems from a misinterpreted safety signal (i.e., survival instinct).
XEEyD We could do it, but should we?