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TIL that Cillian Murphy was vegetarian for about 15 years prior to working on Peaky Blinders. Saying it was never a moral decision. It was more that he was worried about getting mad cow disease.

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bpg0 TIL that it used to be illegal for news reporters to lie to you.
KaeR TIL of ‘The World’ a cruise ship where residents can permanently live as it travels around the globe.
LZLp TIL there is a type of ice that only forms on rotting wood, and is created thanks to a fungus. It is called hair ice, and resembles white, silky hair.
wLl4W TIL During the Civil War the Union Army made a parody of the Confederate's de facto anthem "Dixie"
RGOw TIL Saddam Hussein kept a torture chamber in the basement of the Iraqi mission on the Upper East Side of NYC across the street from Michael Bloomberg’s house. People who died there had their bodies mailed back to Iraq in diplomatic shipments.