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TIL Graham Norton auditioned for a part in The Lord of the Rings.

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6EyjZ TIL: Former USAF nuclear missile launch officer Captain Robert Salas and a group of five former USAF officers and airmen gave a press release stating they witnessed UFOs deactivate nuclear missiles and even land in a nuclear weapons storage area
epWRn TIL AI scientists put a 1 in 6 chance that AI advances will lead to human extinction or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment of the human species
0wMky TIL that the "hot hand fallacy" is itself a fallacy, caused by a common statistical error. Once correcting for that error, streaks or "hot hands" were found to exist in basketball.
78oKM TIL in 1865, one of the first automobile laws in the UK imposed a 4mph speed limit and required someone to walk ahead of the vehicle waving a red flag
GAg0Q TIL you're supposed to "de-vein" the shrimp before eating, meaning you have to remove its intestinal tract still filled with feces.