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TIL Viggo Mortensen’s son was in the The Lord of The Rings films and played an orc that was killed by Aragorn

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Z9ND TIL North and South Korean armies choose their physically toughest looking soldiers to have a constant ongoing “stare down” across the Korean border to determine who is more powerful.
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