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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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Y7yGr TIL that, on being rejected by the only woman he ever proposed to, Lord William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness, took a vow of celibacy, allowing his noble titles to go extinct upon his death in 1995.
nvRd TIL a man killed himself to prove that the afterlife existed. The spiritualist who was waiting to hear from him in the afterlife never did.
xVAw TIL Even the Pope thinks the debate between Creationism and Evolution is ridiculous.
d8ja7 TIL that after decades of Florida’s convoluted fireworks law that supposedly made them illegal (but allowed the sale for unlikely purposes, which purchasers would sign “official” forms attesting to), fireworks are now legal for all residents on New Year’s and the Fourth of July.
nG4r TIL during prohibition, grape farmers sold grape concentrates with a warning label that read: “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”