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TIL Actor who played Crabbe in Harry Potter was imprisoned for two years because of his participation in the 2011 England Riots

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OG6J6 TIL Humphrey Bogart was an avid chess player and often played correspondence chess with soldiers overseas during World War II. In 1943, the FBI told him to stop doing so after they intercepted his mail believing the chess notations to be secret codes.
7RWX TIL In 1965, a U.S. Army sergeant drunkenly deserted his company, wandered into North Korea, and was forced to be an interpreter, actor, teacher, and father by the North Korean regime until his release..wait for it..39 years later, in 2004.
QNorp TIL Ian Fleming, author of the original 007 novels, was against the casting of Sean Connery as James Bond, calling him an “overgrown stuntman”, and criticizing his appearance. However, he ended up liking Connery’s performance so much that he characterized Bond based on him in future novels.
b8e0 TIL In December 2005, a doctor in England published research suggesting that girls often go through a stage where they hate their Barbie dolls and subject them to a range of punishments, including decapitation and placing the doll in a microwave oven.
woxB1 TIL artist Dean Cornwell submitted three entries for a competition to paint the rotunda of the Los Angeles Public Library, one under his real name and two under fake names. Cornwell won the competition with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.