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TIL that Bob Anderson was Viggo Mortensen's private fighting trainer - or in other words, Darth Vader taught Aragorn how to fight

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Gadj TIL that after a muti-day free base cocaine bender, Richard Pryor poured 151-proof rum all over himself and lit himself on fire. While ablaze, he ran from his Los Angeles home down Parthenia St., until being subdued by police.
be0j TIL that the creator of NBA Jam hated the Chicago Bulls so much that he coded it so that they would miss last second shots against the Detroit Pistons.
rARy TIL that a mexican drug lord had among other luxury stuff, 2 watches made from metal of the Titanic
ADAww TIL of Wilmer McLean, who’s house in Manassas, Virginia was in the 1st battle of Bull Run. He moved to Appomattox, Virginia, but 4 years later Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in his living room. His properties had one of the first, and last encounters of the Civil War.
l105 TIL Russian scientists were able to bring back an arctic flower, extinct for 32,000 years, from a seed that’s been borrowed by an ice age squirrel