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TIL that Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi has a sensory condition called synesthesia that allows him to visualize music.

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8aWG8 TIL According to “The Impact of Disease on the Civil War”, 3/5 Union troops died of diseases. 63% of Union fatalities were due to disease, 12% due to wounds, 19% of Union deaths were due to death on the battle field. Likewise, 2/3 Confederate troops died of infection.
4X0o TIL A former Italian Porn star became a politician and continued to make adult movies while a member of parliament
bX1E TIL The Ebola virus wiped out 70 to 95% of the 20,000 gorillas in Congo’s d'Odzala national park between 2003 and 2005
p8vD4 TIL Jeremy Renner, probably best known for playing Hawkeye in the Avengers, also owns a profitable business with his brother where they flip houses. "It's been a great outlet for me creatively... I'd probably still do it if I [just] broke even."
e04A4 TIL of Edward Bunker, who played Mr. Blue in Q.Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Before becoming an actor, he was convicted of bank robbery, drug dealing, extortion, armed robbery, and forgery, and in 1951 had the dubious honor of being the youngest ever inmate in San Quentin State Prison at age 17.