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TIL The Wild West only lasted around 30 years.

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YpX4r TIL The full lyrics to "Oh My Darling, Clementine" recount the narrator falling in love with a woman named Clementine, but she drowns in a river so the narrator promptly goes for her little sister
OGDkX TIL about Mark Zborowski, an NKVD agent who infiltrated Trotsky's organization in Paris, murdered Trotsky's son, moved to the US where he continued to infiltrate Trotsky's organization. He joined Harvard as a researcher, was later tried and convicted as a spy, and then resumed his academic career.
LaPZ TIL that while preparing for his role as Rust Cohle in ‘True Detective,’ Matthew McConaughey wrote a 450-page deconstruction of his character’s life. It detailed the character at 4 pivotal points in his life and explored the mind of a “deep, wild-ass narco.”
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