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TIL Evangeline Lilly was promised there would be no love triangle in The Hobbit, her one stipulation for accepting the role. A year later the actors were called back for reshoots, with a love triangle added in.

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QyXd TIL that Buddhists have been replanting decedents of the tree that Buddha reached enlightenment under for thousands of years.
6E0WX TIL The Shroud of Turin, the alleged linen cloth covering the burial of Jesus, was closely examined in 1988 in laboratories in Switzerland, England and the United States using carbon-14 dating techniques. The study concluded that it originated in the Middle Ages between 1260 and 1390.
QBad TIL Gmail was announced on April 1, 2004, making many believe that the service was a joke.
85YL TIL that the genetic testing of a boy who died 12,500 years ago proved that descendants of all Native Americans, including South & Central American tribes, can be traced back at least 24,000 years to a group of early Asians and Europeans who mated near Lake Baikal in what is now Siberia.
ELaV TIL that during the filming of Schindler’s List, a Polish woman who encountered Ralph Fiennes dressed in his Nazi uniform told him that “the Germans were charming people. They didn’t kill anybody who didn’t deserve it.”