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TIL the FBI Mined Grocery Store Records for Falafel Purchases to Find Iranian Terrorists

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AayB TIL that Wilko Johnson, British music legend and the actor that plays mute executioner Ilyn Payne in Game of Thrones has pancreatic cancer and has been given 9-10 months to live.
4XQD6 TIL that Hans Zimmer for the film Interstellar composed some of the score in specific BPM (Beats per minute) to match the time of each planet they were on.
VBd0G TIL that a genetic disease might have been behind Henry VIII’s low number of surviving children and his crazed behavior in his middle and later years.
6B5l TIL that Steve Martin was never an actual cast member on SNL; he just made so many guest appearances that people assumed he was apart of the cast
7rRoL TIL that when chillies were first introduced to Japan, instead of eating them, people would grow them as small decorative plants or put them in their shoes to keep their toes warm.