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TIL Kirk Douglas, star of Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960), will turn 100 years old on December 9th. He has starred in 91 films, won a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1996, and has survived a helicopter crash and a stroke. He is also the world’s oldest celebrity blogger.

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QN7Oa TIL a team of student volunteers on an archaeological dig at a site in northern France discovered a 200-year-old note left by an archaeologist who had performed an excavation of the site in 1825.
JY5bl TIL that from 1977-2011, the national flag of Libya was literally a green rectangle
4kEKX TIL during the Cold War the US government stored opium and morphine at Fort Knox and the West Point Mint, to ensure the nation had adequate supplies in case of war or other supply disruptions. The stockpile was enough to meet the painkiller needs of the United States for one year.
OonM1 TIL Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs mortgaged his home to buy a virtual asteroid for $100,000. In 2005, this was the most valuable virtual item ever sold. This landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the most expensive virtual item, which he later sold for $635,000.
Me0X0 TIL that the parents of Cliff Burton, Metallica bassist killed in a bus crash in 1986 at the age of 24, have been quietly donating his royalties to the music program of his former high school ever since.