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TIL of Harry Potter marathon screenings, where people can watch all eight movies in a row, spending almost 24 hours at the cinema

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BgRQd TIL Only 1 reigning monarch speaks Czech fluently, namely, the King of Cambodia
WkVm9 TIL during the entire filming of Mary Poppins, NOBODY, not even Julie Andrews, let Dick Van Dyke know he had the “most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema.”
wo0eo TIL that coffee fueled the Enlightenment by providing a safe alternative to contaminated water and alcohol
J1PnV TIL about Basil Zaharoff a 19th and early 20th century arms dealer, who is believed to have inspired the James Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
d8RJQ TIL a Colombian footballer was murdered after scoring an own goal, knocking Colombia out of the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The next day, a BBC commentator for another match remarked, “the Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that”.