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TIL: Viggo Mortensen bonded with the horse he rode in Lord of the Rings so be bought it from the owner.

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X0aRj TIL about 19% of Americans believed the government was responsible for the 9/11 attacks
8j68 TIL of Carlos DeLuna, who was wrongly convicted of murder and executed for killing a gas station attendant. The police made no effort to investigate another man named Carlos who looked nearly identical to DeLuna. Evidence of his innocence would have taken less than a day of investigation to uncover
xroB TIL alligators do not have sex-determining chromosomes. Instead, the sex is determined by the temperature of the environment the alligator is in.
p8N4p TIL that an Irish farmer called Quin was digging for potatoes in 1868 and instead found the Ardagh chalice, which remains one of the finest insular works of art we have of the celtic period.
EgrnW TIL the movie Footloose is based on a real event. Elmore City, Oklahoma banned dancing in 1898 and kept the law until a group of high school students protested during the 1979-1980 school year. The Town Council voted to repeal the law 3-2 and the school students were allowed to hold a prom.