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TIL Johnny Depp’s first performance as Jack Sparrow earned him an Academy Award nomination. Roger Ebert himself reviewed: “There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie.”

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vjyL TIL The shopkeeper in “The good The bad and The ugly” is still alive, at the age of 103
EYVo TIL that Japan is using more and more blue street lights to reduce suicide and crime
jyXv TIL Pakistan has a blasphemy law that doesn’t require corroborating evidence, just the word of one accuser, and has a mandatory death sentence.
WQZX TIL that hollow point bullets are banned from use in small arms during war by NATO.
VoO8 TIL under the provisions of the 1912 Scottish Protection of Animals Act, the Loch Ness monster is a protected species.