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TIL That actor Viggo Mortensen is also an author, that has had over 20 books of his poetry, photography, and painting published

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e0VK5 TIL In a 1958 documentary, Disney faked mass suicide of lemmings by throwing some lemmings bought from Inuit children off of a cliff into the ocean
0w0WM TIL that Aztec Kings had rules for plagues, including “Do not be a fool.”
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