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TIL that JK Rowling told Warner Bros. that Harry Potter had to be filmed in Britain with an all-british cast

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NWZ8 TIL Queen Elizabeth (an experienced Army driver during WWII) once took King Abdullah for a drive in her Land Rover. As she accelerated through narrow Scottish roads while talking the King was so nervous that he implored the Queen to slow down and concentrate on the road ahead.
BrYD TIL in England, there is a ‘Chap Olympiad’ where contestants compete in events like Umbrella Jousting and Shouting at Foreigners.
v115D TIL that within about 600 million years, faster weathering of rocks by an increasingly brighter sun will reduce atmospheric CO2 levels below the threshold required for trees to survive, and all of earth's forests will die.
e0Leg TIL George A. Romero wrote a whole screenplay for a Resident Evil movie after watching a playthrough of the first game, but Capcom rejected it.
wG7M TIL that in 1773 a man named Wolraad Woltemade saved 14 people stranded on a sinking ship by riding his horse, Vonk, out into the water to fetch them. Upon reaching the ship the seventh time the horse was exhausted. Wolraad, Vonk and those clinging onto him all drowned.