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TIL Matt Stone and Trey Parker are not atheists contrary to the common South Park's fan's guess on their religious stance

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ZBeD TIL Nintendo tried to buy the rights to Harry Potter so that they could make games for each book in the series
jN7pX TIL Hamley's flagship store in Regent Street, London, is the largest toy shop in the world (7 floors covering 54,000 square feet)
VMo6D TIL Sweden was the first country to put a eugenic state into practice before WW2 and the first state that set up for racial biology, an estimated 63,000 women were sterilised who were deemed to not have ‘Aryan-like’ genes, it ended in 1973 and compensation has been paid since 2000 to any victims
wLWw8 TIL that almost 1/3 of all the morphine in the world is derived in a city in Turkey called "Afyon" which literally means Opium.
LQYap TIL in 2001 The LEGO Group faced legal action for their use, and misuse, of various Polynesian Words for Bionicle. Specifically how Tohunga (meaning “skilled person/spiritual leader”) was used to describe small villagers.