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TIL The Actor Who Played Crabbe In The Harry Potter Movies Is Currently In Jail For His Part In The London Riots In 2012

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gr5db TIL the "Funny how? Do I amuse you?" scene in Goodfellas is based on an actual event that Joe Pesci experienced while he was waiting tables in the Bronx. He thought he made a compliment to a mobster by saying he was "funny", which was not taken well.
MeBom Today I learned that Soccer was actually coined and originally used by the English for over a century and they are the reason that Americans call Football Soccer today.
e0AZ6 TIL radioactive boars run wild in abandoned towns around the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, and occasionally attack people.
d8eMj TIL Rome has been nicknamed the Cocaine Capital of the World with €1,23 billion worth of cocaine seized in 3 police operations but it was all kept on the low key to protect the image of the eternal city.
5vY9 TIL that Cardinals sing clear, whistled song patterns, which are commonly described as cheeeer-a-dote, cheeer-a-dote-dote-dote, purdy, purdy, purdy…whoit, whoit, whoit, whoit, what-cheer, what-cheer… wheet, wheet, wheet, wheet and cheer, cheer, cheer, what, what, what, what.