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TIL that Angelina Jolie is both Jon Voight’s daughter in real life and in the Tomb Raider movies

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Mnva TIL that the Ancient Greeks didn’t like Ares that much. He represented the violent and untamed parts of War, as opposed to Athena, who was the goddess of Military Strategy.
XEabE TIL Johannes Kepler, an accomplished scientist, had written a science fiction novel The Dream. As a result, his mother had to face trial for practicing witchcraft. He tried to scientifically disprove 49 points of disgrace held up against his mother. She was arrested, 5 years into the ordeal.
EOnw TIL man’s walking pace slows by 7% for wives and girlfriends but not for other women, and increases if walking with another man.
7RWX TIL In 1965, a U.S. Army sergeant drunkenly deserted his company, wandered into North Korea, and was forced to be an interpreter, actor, teacher, and father by the North Korean regime until his release..wait for it..39 years later, in 2004.
5V9Xp TIL about the Aroostook War between the USA and UK. Despite mobilizations and skirmishes, the only casualties were non-combat and 2 injuries by bear.