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TIL New Zealand has an official Wizard appointed by the prime minister.

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yVDkw TIL James Cameron directed the first film to gross over $1 billion (Titanic), the first two films to gross over $2 billion (Titanic and Avatar), and is the only director to have had three films gross over $2 billion (Titanic, Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water).
D1JPr TIL that Vostok Station in Antarctica, with an average temperature of -55.2°, and where the coldest-ever natural temperature was recorded, is one of Earth's sunniest places, with more annual hours of sunshine than the sunniest places in South Africa - despite having no sunshine from May to August
nWBoo TIL that Lea Thompson who played Marty McFly's mother in Back to the Future, was only 10 days older than Michael J. Fox.
OoQO1 TIL Medieval chastity belts are a myth. A great majority of examples now existing were made in the 18th and 19th centuries as jokes.
GYQQ5 TIL Zoroastrianism, a minority religion today in Iran, is one of the world's oldest religions still in existence, pre-dates the birth of both Christianity and Islam by centuries, and was once the official religion of the Persian Empire.