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TIL Viggo Mortensen wore a Montreal Canadiens t-shirt under his armor throughout filming the Lord of the rings trilogy

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x67B1 TIL: That the inventor of the Airplane and the Inventor of Cheez-Its lived across the street from each other. We were touring Orville Wright's home and learned that their neighbor across the street was Weston Green, who invented Cheez-Its.
x68yD TIL in the 2000s, Laura Albert passed herself as JT LeRoy, a former juvenile prostitute heroin-user with AIDS, writing books as him and hiring her boyfriend's step-sister to impersonate him
awdLo TIL a man shot himself in the face after the bullet ricocheted off an armadillo he was attempting to kill
oBR0o TIL a defendant in the UK called a judge a "bit of a cunt" and the judge replied with "you're a bit of a cunt yourself"
OonQ6 TIL a pigeon named, Cher Ami was awarded the Croix de Guerre Medal for her heroic service in delivering 12 important messages during WWI. Most importantly, the message from a trapped 194 man battalion. Arriving with a shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, and her leg hanging by a tendon.