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TIL for the first Harry Potter film, some scenes were filmed twice, with the actors saying 'Philosopher's Stone' for the UK version and 'Sorcerer's Stone' for the US version.

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grwkD TIL that Nazi food scienists made synthetic butter (margarine) out of coal
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78rgZ TIL workers in a Pennsylvania factory volunteered to live at work for 28 days straight, so they could help make protective equipment.
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E1mLP TIL Tupper’s self referential formula is an inequality that plots anything you can fit in a 106x17 pixels rectangle in a certain interval on the Y-axis. As a consequence, we can state that for every one of us there is an interval where the formula plots our name and the date of our death.