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TIL That Sean Bean is so scared of Helicopter flying that he preferred to hike miles up a mountain in full costume to film Lord of the Rings scenes

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LQEMm TiL that the Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" was so controversial that the Vatican allegedly excommunicated the record executive who released it in Italy. Birkin said this led to Gainsbourg calling the Pope "our greatest PR man".
WkOVd TIL out of about 550 people who have been to space, only three have actually died there. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 cabin depressurized at an altitude of 104 miles. When unsuspecting recovery crews opened the capsule, they found the cosmonauts dead inside, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.
J0gV TIL a woman is facing up to 10 years of imprisonment for giving water to pigs on their way to the slaughterhouse
5ZXR TIL if you bought $100 of bitcoin 7 years ago, you’d be sitting on $72.9 million
GNpQ TIL during the Vietnam War, Soldiers asked Bicycle Playing Cards for packs of cards containing nothing but the famous Ace of Spades, As the superstitious Viet Cong were frighted and often fled at the sight of the card.