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TIL Ryan Gosling was in a two-piece gothic rock band called Dead Man's Bones. The other half of the duo was producer Zach Shields.

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Lk6Xv TIL in Maori myth Maui tried to make man immortal by turning into a worm and entering the vagina of the goddess of death while she slept, to reverse the path of birth. A bird laughed at this and woke the goddess, who crushed Maui with her vagina’s obsidian teeth, making Maui the first man to die.
yQdKa TIL that the residents of Chernobyl had a new city built for them by workers from 8 former Soviet republics. The city has a range of different architectural styles such as pink stoned Armenian buildings and wooden Baltic-style houses. City districts are named after a city from each republic.
DaWV TIL when Ben & Jerry’s was founded they followed a 5 to 1 salary ratio where the highest paid employee could make only 5 times the lowest’s salary.
0d89v TIL Emperor Tiberius once personally solved a murder case: A senator's wive fell out of a window and after hearing the husband's testimony, Tiberius decided to personally examine the scene, where he discovered evidence of struggle and later reported to the Senate. The husband was found guilty
1a9Zd TIL in 2008 German actor Daniel Hoevels accidentally cut his own throat on stage in a “suicide scene” when he was given a real knife by mistake.