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TIL the actor Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times for protesting and other civil disobedience.

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NgN TIL There was an American musician in the 1970s who sold very few records in the US, so he quit music and became a demolition worker; in 1998, he found out that his records had gone platinum in South Africa.
1rg8 TIL that you are more likely to die as a drug dealer in Chicago than as a death row inmate in Texas.
KYrp6 TIL that rather confusingly “lime tree” can refer to two very different and unrelated trees, at least in the UK. A lime tree is one that produces citrus fruit, or one of the genus Tilia (in North America often called Linden not to confuse with the citrus one)
OoOla TIL that Christian self-help author John Eldredge's book "Wild at Heart" is required reading for the La Familia drug cartel.
EVPW TIL that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, is empty. In 1998, the remains were identified as USAF 1st Lt. Michael Blassie, and were reinterred in St. Louis, MO - his hometown.