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TIL that the actor who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction (the guy Vincent accidentally shoots in the car) is the voice of Hermes the Jamaican Bureaucrat on Futurama.

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J9dm TIL that Senator Strom Thurmond got married at the ages of 44 and 66. Both times were to a 22 year old winner of the Miss South Carolina beauty pageant.
wL7eE TIL of John Taylor, a charlatan from the 18th century, parading from town to town doing bogus eye operations, and allegedly blinding hundreds of people, including famous composers Handel, and Bach.
6wPJ TIL Bruce Springsteen’s classic, Born to Run, almost became the official song of New Jersey until legislators listened to the lyrics and realized the song was about wanting to get out of New Jersey.
LZ40 TIL that the concept and word “trinity” is nowhere to be found in the Bible and was developed by church fathers in the 4th and 5th centuries
YO7x TIL Johnny Cash was born with the name J.R. Cash because his parents couldn’t think of a name. When he enlisted in the Air Force, they wouldn’t let him use his initials, so he began to call himself John.