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TIL There used to be mushroom farms in the Paris Catacombs
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TIL in Assassin’s Creed every named character you kill is not only a real historical figure, but their death in the game is in the same year and location as their death IRL.
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TIL actor Sean Astin of Goonies and Lord of the Rings fame is the son of actress Patty Duke
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TIL of Theys Eluay, a leader of the peaceful papuan independence movement who was assassinated by indonesian special forces in 2001. When asked about the murder, the indonesian defense minister called the hitmen 'heroes'
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TIL actor Paul Giamatti’s father Angelo Giamatti was a Yale University professor and then Yale University president. He was also the 7th (and shortest-tenured) commissioner of the MLB, dying of a heart attack at 51
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TIL of Zipf's Law. In almost every language, the most common word will occur 2x as often as the second most common word, 3x as often as the third most common word, and so on.