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TIL that during the filming of Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen’s Russian Mafia tattoos were so realistic that when he walked into a Russian Diner in London, everyone fell silent out of fear.

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8eMvK TIL Jimmy Carter is the only US president who has reported seeing an UFO
9Y8PG TIL of the Radium Girls, young women who worked by painting clock dials using glow in the dark radium paints. Because they sucked the brush to make them pointier, they were exposed to massive amounts of radiation, some suffering debilitating diseases that eventually killed them.
epM55 TIL Germany Invaded Belgium in WWII and committed unspeakable atrocities despite Belgium having a peace treaty in place. A German official called the treaty just “a scrap of paper”.
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