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TIL Macaulay Culkin, child star of the Home Alone films, bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes during the filming of Party Monster in 2003. He said he thought this ironic as Manson is meant to be seen as an ‘anarchist’ and it’s Culkin corrupting him.

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rlOw TIL that, eight year’s before the Harry Potter books were published, Jane Yolen published a book called Wizard’s Hall about young boy named Henry who gets recruited to a wizard’s school with teacher’s pictures that move about and a wicked wizard who used to teach there …
WkDYB TIL the inventor of plastic bags, Sten Gustaf Thulindid, didn't believe in single-use plastics. he carried a plastic bag in his pocket and used it over and over again.
e0PME TIL of the Kiplingcotes Derby, the world's oldest horse race (1519). The rules state it must be run every year or never be run again. The weather has threatened the race several times, causing a single rider to lead a horse around the track to prevent the race from being canceled permanently.
16n9O TIL that bodies do not decompose in Lake Superior, due to the freezing temperatures, relative lifelessness, and lack of oxygen in its depths. The bodies of many sailors from its hundreds of shipwrecks still sit eerily preserved on the lake bottom.
wLNyW TIL that Omar Bongo was the President of Gabon for 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. After Cuban President Fidel Castro stepped down in February 2008, Bongo became the world's longest-ruling non-royal leader. He was one of the longest-serving non-royal rulers since 1900.