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TIL both Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix have won Academy Awards for their portrayals of The Joker

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oRw9R TIL that Ayds candy helped you lose weight!
M7mYB TIL the Easter Rising leader was imprisoned in Lincoln Prison, where he became an altar boy to steal the chaplain's key and make a wax mold. He sent its shape by postcard. Friends made the key, hid it in fruitcake and sent it. 3 tries later, he escaped in 1919. He went on to be President of Ireland.
8aZaP TIL When the Rolling Stones left Decca to start their own record label, Decca insisted that the Stones owed them one more song before they were allowed to leave. That incensed Mick Jagger who recorded the song C*cksucker Blues, a song with explicit references to fellatio, anal sex and bestiality
m1VBP TIL There is a word called “Tittynope” which means: A small quantity of anything left over. This word is no.11 on a list of the most unusual words according to culturesconnection.com.
lAl7 TIL an unauthorized Greenpeace publicity stunt timed to coincide with global climate talks in Peru may have destroyed part of the 1500 year-old Nazca Line Hummingbird tracing. The group failed to take proper measures to protect the area, according to their own photos.