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TIL that Elizabeth Olsen almost quit acting in 2004 due to the media attention surrounding her sister Mary-Kate's eating disorder.

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ng8G TIL Gambling for cash is illegal in Japan. Instead, balls won from games are exchanged for prizes or tokens. These items are then exchanged for cash at a place nominally separate from the parlor.
9QZ7 TIL Rick Moranis ( Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) officially left the film industry in 1997 after his wife died of cancer to raise his children.
rW6o TIL that a program such as PRISM will probably never actually detect terrorists because of “Bonferroni’s Principle”
690DJ TIL the Japanese government gifted Dr. Yamanaka, known for his work on induced pluripotent stem cells, 160,000 yen for a washing machine after he won the Nobel Prize, as he mentioned in an interview, "I was in the middle of repairing my washing machine when I heard the news."
QJEVe TIL there is a mini “desert”, called the Athabasca Sand Dunes, near the northern border of Saskatchewan. It is the most northerly active sand dunes on the Earth.