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TIL in Walk the Line, the scene where Joaquin Phoenix tears the sink off the wall was unscripted and he actually did it himself.

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4kEkb TIL About the Edgewood Arsenal human experiment project conducted by the US Army chemical corps from 1948-1975 during which 7,000 soldiers were exposed to various nerve agents to test their results.
6Eygm TIL Sexwork was legal in the state of Rhode Island until 2009. Despite claims that majority of people want the laws affecting sexwork to become loosened, the only major change in the last 30 years was to make sexwork illegal in the only state outside Nevada that allowed it.
x6rN7 TIL: Hoovervilles were shantytowns built by the homeless during the Great Depression. They were named after President Herbert Hoover, who was in office when the Depression began.
awGY0 TIL that according to Maori legend New Zealanders were prey to giant eagles; Haast Eagles, which could catch prey up to 510 lbs and had a wingspan up to 9.8 ft, went extinct around 1400.
vRn4 TIL in 1386 a pig was dressed in people-clothes and then publicly executed by hanging for the murder of a child. The punishment was decided through an actual trial.