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TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested more than any other person in Hollywood (66 times for civil disobedience.)

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ebnk TIL that Gustav Mahler was superstitious and strongly believed in the Curse of the Ninth, where composers can only compose nine symphonies before they die. He tried to beat superstition by calling his 9th symphonic work a “song cycle,” then began work on his 10th symphony and died.
GAppg TIL the search and discovery of the Titanic was only allowed as to cover for searching for 2 US nuclear submarines that sunk in the 60s
LQLVV TIL there is still one K-Mart left in America.
PYBXe TIL the Kingdom of Bhutan banned television and the internet throughout the whole country until 1999
YpxjP TIL that Quakes (as in Earthquakes) don't only happen on Earth. There are Moonquakes, Venusquakes and Starquakes, which happen on neutron stars. One such starquake happened on a star 50000 Light Years away and would have been a 32 on the Richter Scale.