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TIL that "Iron Eyes Cody”, the face of Native Americans with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, was 100% Sicilian.

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Pvdg TIL a Russian billionaire named Dmitry Itskov is working on a project known as the 2045 initiative with the end goal of it being to create a complete working model of a persons brain and putting in a robotic body with the hopes of completing it by 2045.
XbpQ TIL of Otto Skorzeny, a Lt. Colonel in Hitler’s SS who was once called “the most dangerous man in Europe” by Allied intelligence. Years after the war, Skorzeny became an agent for the Israeli Mossad and assassinated an ex-Nazi rocket scientist.
9YPXG TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father
J1Bvv TIL Vending Machines Kill More People Than Sharks Every Year
1Ond TIL the death growl singing style in metal music has been traced back as far as to viking singing.