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TIL Sean Bean dies 32% of the time per film. Bean is tied with only Bela Lugosi for the most deaths per screen appearance.

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5J69 TIL I learned that the first law suit to legalize homosexual marriages in the United States was brought by a Christian Church.
OoMv4 TIL that Poo-phoria occurs when your bowel movement stimulates the vagus nerve, which descends from the brain stem to the colon. It takes a particularly "large mass of stool" to trigger poo-phoria and its vagal-nerve-induced feelings of exhilaration, intense relaxation, and goose bumps.
LrXp TIL the documents pertaining to Martin Luther King’s assassination is only slated to be released by the US government in 2027
JYjvQ TIL Alabama did not repeal its ban on interracial marriage until 2000. 40% of people voted against the repeal.
XEDwQ TIL scientists made a mouse utopia called Universe 25. It started with 4 males and 4 females, peaked at 2200 mice, then declined to extinction - the mice lost instinctual behavors. Humans now demonstrate similar traits.