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TIL Cillian Murphy Lived with Gypsies to Prepare for the Role of Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders

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MeZ0m TIL talking aloud can be a sign of high cognitive function and it is a practice of many high performance people (including professional athletes)
XX1Q TIL there’s a band called Butthole Surfers. Prior to this, they performed under such names as Ed Asner Is Gay, Fred Astaire’s Asshole, The Right To Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole, and The Inalienable Right To Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole.
RNVa TIL that in 2008, a computer simulation of a China vs. America war was run. The U.S. lost.
xVrdB TIL a man who made a fortune transplanting goat testicles into humans nearly became governor of Kansas.