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TIL Ricky Gervais was an 1980s Pop Sensation in the Philippines

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XEmYj TIL when 18-year-old Lady Gaga was studying at NYU, her classmates made a Facebook group called "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous" where they bullied her and called her an "attention-whore". She dropped out after a year to pursue her music career full time.
Z8ZJB TIL there is a Russian version of the Lord of the Rings based on the premise that the original LOTR is a "history written by the victors;" in reality Mordor was on the verge of an industrial revolution which was a threat to the war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented by Gandalf/the elves
rRDX1 TIL Under German law you can be jailed for up to one year, if you provide alcoholic beverages for someone placed by public order into an institution for withdrawal treatment.
0JrA TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger used to give his fellow bodybuilders false advice so he’d easily beat them during competitions
jN0ZN TIL that inflation was so low in the United States in the 2010s that economists were actually becoming concerned that it might signal economic stagnation and a lack of economic control. Inflation was lower between 2010 and 2019 than any decade since the 1930s.