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TIL Hollywood actor Danny Trejo does not do his own stunts, he's said "I don't want to risk 80 people’s jobs just so I can say I have big nuts."

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VJ7G TIL in 2001, members of PETA had just left an anti-hunt protest when they hit a deer. They informed the NJ Division of Fish and and Wildlife that they would sue for damages and injuries since it was a result of the deer management program, which included, increasing the deer population.
8aOv8 TIL There is a Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. It covers a part of Belarusian history which is mainly excluded from current Belarusian official historiography by presenting recordings of inhabitants who report on their personal experiences with Repression during the Soviet time
vPwy4 TIL that 4 of Sigmund Freud’s earliest disciples like Honegger, Otto Gross, Victor Tausk, and Ernst von Fleischl, died by suicide, while others, such as Otto Rank and Ferenczi, began struggling with mental illness.
WkQpo TIL a Bank Of America branch was legally foreclosed upon by a homeowner after failing to pay court-ordered restitutions
8eEpV TIL George Picquart, an anti-semitic French army officer, helped to convict fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, of treason. Subsequently promoted to lead the secret intelligence service, he then discovered and exposed the conspiracy that had framed Dreyfus, eventually toppling the government.