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TIL that Orson Welles had a marijuana garden at his Las Vegas home, which he personally tended.

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78ywM TIL one day, Robbie Williams woke up to find a stalker in his bedroom and initially mistook her for a cleaning lady. She gave him a handjob and left. Years later, he told his band members, who immediately recognized her because she had bragged about the incident, though no one had believed her.
JYvKm TIL about the Gordian Knot, a supposedly impossible knot to untie. An oracle declared that whomever opened the knot would become ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great, unsuccessful at loosening the knot, simply sliced it in half with his sword, fulfilling the prophecy.
m1L8Y TIL in 1916, 17yr old Jesse Washington was convicted of murder in Waco. A lynch mob took him from the court and proceeded to cut off his fingers and genitals, they then burnt him to death slowly whilst the hung him by his neck, lowering and raising him in the fire to prolong his suffering.
veEj TIL Thor’s hammer was intended to have a much longer handle and be wielded two-handed. While it was being forged, Loki interrupted the dwarf manning the bellows, resulting in the hammer’s defect.
GA70J TIL that during filming of The Passion Of the Christ (2004), Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning, accidentally scourged, had his shoulder dislocated, and suffered from pneumonia and hypothermia.