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TIL that Elijah Wood created his Lord of the Rings Frodo audition tape in his backyard with a homemade Hobbit costume

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rRl7e TIL a man running an ultramarathon was joined by a stray dog for more than 77 miles (125 km) through the Gobi Desert, but he lost track of the dog after the race. With help from 20 volunteers, he finally found the dog after a 2-week search, named him Gobi and brought him back to live in Edinburgh.
8dxZ TIL in the 1930s a selling point of the major toilet paper manufacturers at the time was that their product was “splinter free.”
v1Mb7 TIL the NHS in Scotland shows a level of how many days blood they have left in stock.
mx5Zv TIL Sickle Cell Anemia (a condition which disproportionately afflicts Africans) provides protection against Malaria. It is believed that the reason why Africans are more likely to have S.C.A. is Africans benefited from the condition from living in a Malaria risk location.
69oV8 TIL Craig Mazin, who wrote such comedy movies as Scary Movie 3 and The Hangover Part II, later went on to co-create Chernobyl and The Last of Us.