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TIL Viggo Mortensen’s tattoos in Eastern Promises were so realistic that diners in a Russian restaurant in London fell silent out of fear during production.

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NKYe TIL Stephen Colbert lost his father and 2 brothers in a plane crash when he was just 10 years old. Although he was aimless as a teenager, barely graduating high school, he later learned to accept the event and credits it with making him the comedian he is today saying “I learned to love it”.
R5lG6 TIL that during puberty a spike in hormones causes the body to produce more melanin, which is why the penis and nipples are darker than the rest of the skin.
0wgZ5 TIL only one woman has been awarded the Medal Of Honor. It was subsequently taken away from her & then 60 years later, it was posthumously given back. Mary was a women’s right activist & was once arrested for “impersonating” a man by wearing pants.
Oo1x6 TIL some people truly are "born miserable." According to researchers, some people are genetically programmed to be more negative than others due to the levels of a molecule, neuropeptide Y, being lower in their brains than others.
ANN54 TIL that most Native Americans died because of Eurasian Germs like Smallpox, not because of European military success in the New World