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TIL Tobey Maguire has won over $10 million playing professional poker.

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9YOnr TIL that the actor who played French WW2 POW Cpl LeBeau in 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” is a French Jew who survived imprisonment in the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp
OVX7 TIL:Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) had his car stolen, the story got national attention and within 48 hours it was returned with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
5Y51B TIL in 2009, Germans bought more copies of “Farming Simulator” than of GTA4.
wLobW TIL that because their hearing is different from humans dogs adopt and respond to certain names better than others. Names with 2 syllables containing hard consonants and S's like 'Lisa' or 'Rosy' are optimal.
V8m4 TIL Wilhelm Brasse was an Auschwitz prisoner assigned to take thousands of photos for five years. After WW2, the portrait photographer tried to start taking photos but was so traumatized by the ‘ghosts’ of the 'dead’ that he was unable, later saying he would 'never take another photograph’.