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TIL That Sean Bean is referred to as a “two-legged spoiler”, because he is killed so often in films and shows

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5VgG9 TIL that the amount of time between the release of A New Hope and The Phantom Menace is shorter than the amount of time between the release of the Phantom Menace and TODAY.
BYly TIL that for an April fools prank, Virgin cola announced they had a new technology that would turn their cans blue when they expired. They advised their customers not to buy blue cans. Coincidentally, Pepsi had just released their bright blue can design.
yA8 TIL the FBI keeps a publicly-available list of every gang name they come across, indexed by state, and some of the names are hilarious.
PYPge TIL Epona was one of the only Celtic goddesses to be worshiped all around the Roman Empire (and not just the name of Link's horse)
waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.