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TIL all Jack Nicholson had to say about Heath Ledger’s death was “I warned him.” Pertaining to the role of The Joker.

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b64yQ TIL 7 Mary 3 Took Their Name From CHiPs. It Was John’s Call Number.
Ypbkr TIL that the Karen are an actual ethnic group of approximately 7.5 million Sino-Tibetan peoples. While the group as a whole is heterogeneous and disparate, some of the Karen, led primarily by the Karen National Union (KNU), have been in a constant state of war since the 1940s.
78g5b TIL that there’s 1,300 massive toxic waste sites on the EPA’s National Priorities List (NPL) and 42,000 more on the non-NPL list. That’s 2+ toxic waste incidents in all 19,400 cities, towns and villages in the US, on average!!
OoRPe TIL that in the original Grimms' Rumpelstiltskin (1812), when the imp's name was revealed, he fled in surrender, never to be seen again. In 1857, the Grimms rewrote a new, more brutal ending, wherein the Imp, in defeat, plants one foot in the ground, grabs the other, and tears his own body in half.
eQBn TIL that woodpeckers avoid headaches by wrapping their tongues around their brains.