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TIL all of the filming for the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy (aside from a few pick-ups) was completed before the release of Fellowship

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WkDeo TIL there’s a 10,000 year old Stonehenge-like structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan that has a carving of a mastodon on it.
pO7N TIL in the 6 months after they installed 20 speed cameras in NYC school zones, the city gave out more than 100k tickets equal to $5.3 million in fines
oaXK TIL Salvador Dali painted a portrait of Abraham Lincoln using 121 pixels.
QJW6L TIL of Gillian McKeith, a self-declared nutritionist who has appeared on mainstream UK television presenting herself as a doctor with a PhD despite having no medical qualifications, and has also said misleading things regarding illegal products she sold.
E1lx0 TIL there was a lengthy storyline on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" (traditionally a quasi-realistic down to Earth series) where a character was possessed by Satan and tried to bring about the ruination of the Church.