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TIL Crabbe wasn’t featured in the final two Harry Potter films due to the actor being charged for marijuana possession.

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YprJB TIL Fourteen American Revolutionary War Veterans Lived Long Enough to Have Their Photos Taken. Most Were Over a Hundred Years Old By Then.
mxLvp TIL as Late Republican Rome descended into civil war, the collection of precious rocks was exploited in elite political competition. Senator Nonius refused to sell Mark Antony his opal ring for 2 million sesterces, so the triumvir proscribed him. He fled into exile with nothing but his gem.
EXM0 TIL that Eris, discovered in 2005, is more massive than Pluto and would have qualified as the tenth planet in the solar system, until its discovery prompted the International Astronomical Union to formally define ‘planet’ with a size cutoff that also excluded Pluto
8amXa TIL Actress Ruth Wilson’s grandfather, Alexander Wilson, was a serial bigamist, spy, and MI6 officer. She portrayed her own grandmother, Alison, in a three part drama series about the discovery of his parallel lives.
dDLQQ TIL the first paper gift card was created by an Oregon glove company in 1908 that advertised "gift givers need not worry about picking the right size or color glove"; department store Neiman Marcus created the first plastic card; and Blockbuster Video was a pioneer of displaying them to customers