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TIL Bob Anderson who trained Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) in sword fighting also wore the Darth Vader suit during the lightsaber duels in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

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Br1Pd TIL of Derinkuyu, the world’s deepest underground city, capable of holding 20,000 inhabitants.
olAA TIL in 2002 Russell Brand wanked off a man in the toilet of gay bar in Soho for his documentary show RE:Brand (NSFW)
l7Ra TIL: Tom Hanks is too tall at 6'1" to be an astronaut. The maximum height for an astronaut is 6'0".
m11DR TIL about the Elephantine Colossus: A 200-foot-tall elephant-shaped hotel that was built on Coney Island in 1885, that housed a concert hall, museum, observatory, and more. It later became a brothel but burnt down on 27th September 1896 following a mysterious incident.
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