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TIL the members of post-hardcore band Fugazi refuse to be interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine unless they agree to print an issue with no alcohol/tobacco ads due to their straight edge beliefs

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VMQnD TIL about Moe Berg, the “strangest man to ever play baseball,” who spoke several languages and found a post-baseball career as a US spy during World War II and was ordered to kill Werner Heisenberg if the Nazis came close to building a nuclear bomb.
OAA1 TIL the reason Yukon Cornelius sniffs and licks his pickax in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is because he is searching for peppermint to mine. It the original version he discovers a mine near Santa’s Workshop.
ADWNg TIL: The film "The Hobbit" caused as many as 27 animals deaths during production. One horse had the skin and muscles of her leg torn off by wire fencing, several chickens were mauled to death by unsupervised dogs, and one horse was hobbled and left on the ground for three hours.
b9pXN TIL that 2010 and 2015, Russia accounted for more than 80% of the new HIV infections in the entire Eastern European and the Central Asian region.
X0ZpP TIL Vanessa Carlton’s song A Thousand Miles is most likely about Glenn Howerton.