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TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis was Peter Jackson's first choice for playing Aragorn in LOTR.

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GA1pG Today I learned about Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr, the first black Marine Corp Aviator and General. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Peterson being promoted to brigadier general in 1979. The navy currently has a Arleigh-Burke class destroyer named after him the ship's motto is "Into the Tiger's Jaw!"
9AEQ TIL Tolstoy was an adamant vegetarian. In one instance his aunt requested chicken for dinner. When arriving at the table, she found a live chicken tied to her chair, and a butcher knife on her placemat.
17r7 TIL that Ron Swanson wrote the story/screenplay for “Forest Warrior,” a 1996 film starring Chuck Norris. In one scene, Chuck Norris is an eagle diving through the air with the purpose of transforming into human form to deliver a flying kick to the face of an unsuspecting foe.
Jk94 TIL there is a flower often used as a food dye in Southeast Asian cuisine called “Clitoria”–named because it resembles a woman’s sexual organs
v9w4 TIL that strawberries and cream oatmeal doesn’t have real dried strawberries…they are apple pieces dyed and flavored to taste like strawberries. The blueberries and cream are dyed and flavored figs.