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TIL J. R.R. Tolkien was an Anarchist.

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6ELOJ Today I learned that there's a building where you can see the sunset twice by seeing it on a low level and then taking the elevator quick to see it again. A very good way to shove flat earthers over the edge
Z4va TIL that Robert Downey Jr was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Kirk Lazarus in “Tropic Thunder”
4XmMb TIL that the Persian Empire counted how many soldiers in a battle died through counting the arrows that each soldier would place in a basket before a battle. When the soldiers came back, they each picked up an arrow and the remaining arrows would be counted to calculate the total amount of deaths
ADY14 TIL a party boat carrying sixty men and women once capsized in Texas after all the passangers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
R6d4 TIL China harvests organs from political prisoners and, consequentially, has the world’s shortest wait time for organ transplants