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TIL the actor who played Gimli in LOTR stood at 6'1". It also made him the tallest member of the actors in The Fellowship of the Ring.

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KOxxw TIL when he was in fourth grade, Bill Watterson wrote to Charles Schulz, the creator of “Peanuts”, expressing his desire to become a professional cartoonist. Much to the young boy’s surprise, the cartoonist responded, encouraging Watterson to go on to create “Calvin and Hobbes.”
e0EBE TIL of the improbable case of Phineas Gage, An American railroad worker who survived an accident where a metal bar went completely through his head
dLbB TIL that during the civil rights movement, interracial adoptions tripled in number until the National Association of Black Social Workers condemned it, leading to interracial adoption of black children coming to a complete stop in the 1990’s.
enj4 TIL Canada has the highest Cannabis use in the world.
LkX99 TIL of eight deaths related to ingesting liquid laundry packets (i.e. Tide Pods) in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017 that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, only two of the cases were actually children, with six of them being adults with dementia.