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TIL Kristian Nairn, the actor who played Hodor in Game of Thrones, is a house/EDM music DJ, and he has played alongside people like Fatboy Slim and Steve Aoki. He also headlines his own “Rave of Thrones” club show, a fully immersive Game of Thrones clubbing experience which has toured the UK and US.

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oBv97 TIL that in Ukraine, Christmas is celebrated with a twelve course meal, but can't begin to eat until the youngest child watches for the first evening star to appear.
Z8nnp TIL prehistoric evidence of burial has been found in both Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis, suggesting that the evolutionary roots of spirituality and belief in the afterlife pre-date modern humans. The earliest evidence of human burial has been dated to 100,000 years ago.
MoPA TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan released an article saying that women should not worry about contracting HIV from infected men and that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”, claiming it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
v1w44 TIL that May 14 is the feast day of St. Corona. She is the patron saint of butchers. Austrian farmers used to pray to her for protecting their livestock from contagious diseases.
8Web TIL: when the spanish landed on the Yucatan Peninsula, they asked “where are we?”, to which the indigenous population responded “Yucatan”, meaning “I don’t understand what he just said”