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TIL Christopher Lee was in involved in numerous metal albums for the last ten years of his life

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nLp9 TIL when Charlie Sheen was being sentenced for using a prostitute, the judge asked him why a man like him would have to pay for sex. Sheen reportedly replied: “I don’t pay them for sex. I pay them to leave.”
0wYAN TIL that a number of models who have portrayed the Marlboro Man have died of smoking-related diseases
DP7j TIL the US gas guzzler tax that was designed to discourage fuel-inefficient vehicles only applies to cars, but not SUVs, trucks, and vans, since they were rarely used as passenger cars when the law was passed in 1978. The law has since not been updated to reflect modern times.
0mKA TIL a rehearsal of the entire movie ‘The Karate Kid (1984)’ was filmed on a handheld video camera before production officially started
b9Pp0 TIL:word mummy derives from Arabic word "mumiya" a substance which was used as a medicine .Bitumen, another substance was used in process of mummfication had a similar name"mumia".Europeans confused the words and thought "mumiya" refers to real mummies and thus started eating mummies as medicine