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TIL that before the first Harry Potter film was released in the early 2000s, Warner Bros. demanded the owners of Harry Potter fansites, including a 15 year old, to hand over their domain names due to copyright protection. This caused negative publicity, which resulted to the studio backing down.

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wVk7 TIL Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific in 1947 in a self-built raft to prove ancient people could have made contact between the continents
awPpA TIL Dwayne Johnson’s Longtime Stunt Double is also his Real-Life Cousin, Tanoai Reed
nWVN7 TIL of Toni Gardiner from Suffolk in England who worked as a secretarial assistant on the set of Lawrence of Arabia, during which time she met the King of Jordan. They married and had four children, the first of which is now King Abdullah II of Jordan.
MNla TIL Nelson Mandela wasn’t removed from the US terror watch list until 2008
VV4Z TIL the first webcam was created to help people avoid pointless trips to the coffee room at the University of Cambridge. The camera provided a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot, which was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room.