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TIL there is a pub in Ireland that opened in 900 ad.

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YpZ7r [TIL] that Isaac Wright (Bran on GOT) had to leave university after only 8 weeks because of all the attention he got. People had his flat address and his email address. He was even assigned a campus police officer at one point. When his then girlfriend came to visit they hid in his room for a week.
XEKy6 TIL Canonical (the people behind Ubuntu) are partners with Microsoft
d8rmr TIL the famous Napoleon Dynamite dance scene was spontaneously improvised at the last moment when the producers had no money left and only 10.5 minutes of film roll remaining.
E1k7x TIL in a space of 58 days between December 15, 1951 and February 11, 1952 there were three airplane crashes in Elizabethtown, NJ.
rRAy4 TIL that Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", was caught after his brother, David, read Ted's manifesto (that Ted had demanded to be published in a major newspaper as a condition for ceasing the mail bombings), recognized Ted's writing style, and informed the FBI. David received a $1 million reward.