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TIL Daniel Day-Lewis said that his second Oscar-winning performance as vicious oil baron Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood was heavily inspired by Bogart’s portrayal of Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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VMZyQ TIL that armadillo shells can deflect bullets
QGO6 TIL that in Japan, prisoners on death row are not told when they will be executed until a few hours before they are hanged, and their families are not notified until after they are dead.
5Ya5R TIL There is a River in Peru is so hot it kills anything that falls into it.
LkpYd TIL that in former soviet territories there are hundreds of small, abandoned nuclear generators (250W tops) in total disrepair.
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