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TIL that the actor who played 11 year-old Voldemort (a.k.a. Tom Riddle) in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is the nephew of Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played the grown-up Voldemort in the final 5 films.

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yQb7p TIL Romania had a much-abused law that allowed prisoners to reduce their sentences by writing scientific books in jail. 30 days were written off for every book. One politician wrote 9 of them, and one 212-page book was reportedly written in just 7 hours.
KO41w TIL that there is a town in West Virginia, USA named "Hundred" for centenarian Henry "Old Hundred" Church. He was a British soldier under Cornwallis who was captured and stayed in the area until his death in 1860 at 109. He was born c. 1751 and was about 25 when the DOI was signed.
xnl7 TIL Nixon was speaking at Disney World when he famously declared “I am not a crook”
nX17 TIL Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong, was cell mates with Jordan Belfort and encouraged him to write his autobiography “The Wolf of Wall Street”
4glg TIL Space Ghost Coast to Coast was the show that launched the late night television block we know today as Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.