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TIL that as a youth, George R.R Martin wrote stories about a mythical kingdom in which his pet turtles resided; he decided, since the turtles frequently died in their toy castle, that they were the victims of “sinister plots” designed by the others. Game of Turtles, indeed.

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Ob6g TIL that Dale Dye, a Vietnam vet, was so “pissed off” at Hollywood’s depiction of war that he offered his services as an advisor and now runs “the entertainment industry’s top military consultancy company”. He’s worked on Platoon, The Pacific and, for some reason, Entourage.
6EaNw TIL that face mites live in our facial pores, have eight legs like a spider, eat sebum (skin oil), and don't have anuses.
aNjM TIL that India has a higher population than the entire Western Hemisphere.
e0yEL TIL that Hessy Levinsons Taft, who was featured in Nazi propaganda as the “Perfect Aryan Baby” was actually Jewish.
KYAR TIL that during a duel-related brawl, Jim Bowie got shot, pistol-whipped so hard the gun broke, and impaled with a sword cane. With the sword still in his chest, he disemboweled his attacker before getting shot and stabbed again by someone else. He lived and went on to fight at the Alamo.