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TIL Johnny Cash approved Joaquin Phoenix to play him in the film because he liked his performance in Gladiator (2000). June Carter Cash also approved Reese Witherspoon for her role in the film.

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VB410 TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of any animal, with up to a million hairs per square inch. This keeps them warm in freezing waters since they don’t have blubber.
p8KR8 TIL serial killer Carroll Cole, responsible for the deaths of at least 15 women, killed his first victim at just 8 years of age, drowning a classmate in a lake. The death was thought to have been an accident until he confessed in an autobiography he wrote in prison.
W75Z9 TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald and President Teddy Roosevelt were 3rd cousins, 1x removed. Roosevelt’s maternal grandmother Susannah and Oswald’s great-grandfather Thomas Hepworth Sr. were siblings.
GW7 TIL America’s first Muslim congressman was sworn in using Thomas Jefferson’s Koran
VBlm TIL: Legend has it that in the 12th century there was a Church in England that would give free bacon to any man who could swear he hadn’t argued with his wife in a year