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TIL that there was a two-hour-long animated LOTR film that followed the story of The Fellowship of the Ring, and it came out over two decades before Peter Jackson's live-action adaptation.

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E6pp TIL the official Twitter account of Sweden is controlled by a different citizen each week.
YglG TIL Lord Nelson, one of the greatest British naval commanders of all time suffered from chronic sea sickness throughout his career.
KOMmQ TIL that in 1966, Kenneth McDuff murdered three people and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life, and he was paroled in 1989. He went on to murder at least four more people, was caught in 1992, once again sentenced to death, and executed in 1998.
DQDwV TIL about trickle-down economics of psychoactive mushrooms: shamans in Siberia would often partake of Amanita muscaria psychoactive mushrooms and shaman's urine was then drunk by others who wanted to experience the same, albeit milder, psychoactive effects
yVJVM TIL of the "Cave bears", a now extinct species who lived predominantly in caves throughout Europe