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TIL that weed and hops are from the same plant family

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Z8Mla TIL Feeling that "Star Trek: Nemesis" would finally be his big break, Tom Hardy took his role very seriously. When it failed commercially and with fans, he spent the next several years battling alcohol and suicidal thoughts.
mxjrY TIL Aaron Burr was the only Founding Father who believed wholeheartedly in women's rights
ADYgo TIL for the brutal Omaha Beach scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Spielberg hired several dozen army amputees with prosthetic limbs so that he could have their arms and legs blown off in a more realistic fashion. More than $11 million was spent and 1,000 extras used for the infamous scene.
ZnOo TIL that the world’s largest brothel, with 500 rooms, was built in Seattle in 1910. It was so scandalous that the mayor lost his job, and the building became the ordinary Lester Apartments. It was destroyed 40 years later when an air force bomber crashed into it.
grlWb TIL that actor Terrence Howard developed his own mathematics system, Terryology, claiming to have "proved" that 1x1 doesn't equal 1.