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TIL Game Of Thrones Actor Hafthor Bjornsson aka The Mountain Deadlifted A World Record 1103lbs / 501kg Proving He Really Is A Mountain Of A Man!

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OmAa TIL Indiana Jones may have been inspired by American political scientist William Montgomery McGovern, who by age 30 had already explored the Amazon and braved uncharted regions of the Himalayas, survived revolution in Mexico, studied at Oxford and become a Buddhist priest in a Japanese monastery.
gQpb TIL that adding a trace of blue dye to laundry, called “bluing,” actually makes the whites appear whiter. It is a technique also used on white hair, thus “blue haired old ladies.”
OoXaa TIL that a TV news crew were filming on the streets of New York when Flight 11 hit the North Tower, but managed to get only audio of the actual crash.
MeLJ7 TIL of Inverted Totalitarianism. Not found in a demagogue but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. It pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, freedom of the press etc., but it has seized all of the mechanisms of power rendering the citizen impotent.
WkvON TIL a group of escaped German POWs returned to Camp Ozada in Alberta, Canada voluntarily after encountering a grizzly bear