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TIL Viggo Mortensen often spent days hiking to LOTR’s remote locations in costume, in order to appear authentically travel-worn.

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QJA96 TIL The Three Stooges performed at the very first Super Bowl Halftime Show. During their performance, Larry Fine spotted a football player hitting on his wife. He flipped him the bird, and for this he got in trouble with CBS and had to pay a fine of $42.50.
9YmwM TIL In addition to the Rosetta Stone, numerous trilingually inscribed steles have been uncovered with the latest in 2004 (decree of Canopus). Any of these discoveries would have deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.
8XlL TIL If you are bitten by a coral snake you shit out of luck. Production of anti-venom stopped in 2010 because it wasn’t profitable anymore.
9YVWp TIL Astronomers have discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then again in 2014. Lead author: "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."
Ogw7 TIL: Iva Toguri, the woman convicted of treason for being Tokyo Rose, lived in Chicago and helped run a family store until her death in 2006 at age 90.