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TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.

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4kdPb TIL that glacier mice are are colonies of wandering moss, observed as far apart as Alaska and Uganda. They move at least an inch a day as a herd and in a non-random fashion. Though they reproduce asexual, the conditions for them to form, or the the nature of their movement, has yet to be explained.
XEYj8 TIL that Ancient Greek slingers used to write "ΔΕΞΑΙ" (Dexai) meaning "take that" or "catch" on their lead sling bullets; soldiers have been writing sarcastic taunts on their weapons forever
ByLd TIL that after Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath, Michael Bolton auditioned to replace him (xpost from /r/metal)
8LQ8 TIL the first recording of the spoken word “Fuck” was made in 1885.
aXa9 TIL of an area in Ohio called Helltown. It became abandoned in the 1970’s when the US government drove citizens from their homes through eminent domain to form national parks. One poor soul scrawled, “This is how the Indians must have felt” on the wall of his former home.