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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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0mAR TIL that Winston Churchill, after being told that he could not drink in front of Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”
8eNeX TIL: You can close a chrome tab by middle clicking on it!
oB7Z7 TIL psychologist László Polgár theorized that any child could become a genius in a chosen field with early training. As an experiment, he trained his daughters in chess from age 4. All three went on to become chess prodigies, and the youngest, Judit, is considered the best female player in history.
beA7 TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman) read only his lines for the final episode. He then threw the script in the garbage and made sure he would not know the ending until the episode airs on television
1MgP TIL that a 10th grader was jailed for 3 years without a trial for a robbery he didn’t commit. When they finally let him go, he never even got an apology.