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TIL that Wall Street gets it's name from the wall built around the Dutch colony in New York

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8eP9b TIL that Ian Flemming not only wrote the James Bond novels, he also wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.
b6Dv9 TIL while filming Game of Thrones, Charlie Dance (Tywin Lannister) apologized to Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) after every scene where he had to treat Dinklage "like shit."
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