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TIL Shia Lebeouf directed an ultra explicit music video for Marilyn Manson that was heavily inspired by the Holy Mountain.

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7r11X TIL Asian Arowana, the most expensive aquarium fish, is rumored to sell for as high as $300,000. While illegal to own in the US, people in Asian countries have: paid to have surgery on the fish, robbed people for it, and even murdered for the fish.
gMvPD TIL the bluest blue (to date) was accidentally discovered when a researcher received a grant to explore novel materials for electronics applications and tried to heat together oxides of manganese, yttrium, and indium at two thousand degrees Fahrenheit
WkKL4 TIL Nigerian author Abi Daré originally wrote her first novel "The Girl With the Louding Voice" as a dissertation submission for her MA in Creative Writing. She submitted it for a competition, expecting that her use of non standard English would be an automatic rejection but she won
ZpMmB TIL of Army Spc. Alyssa Peterson who died after shortly after refusing to participate in torture of prisoners of war. Her death was ruled a suicide.
OorMg TIL That during a skit Paul Hogan joked about attaching $10 to his tax return to get his refund quicker. That year the ATO had around 7,000 returns come in with a $10 note attached.