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TIL that Orlando Bloom and Peter Jackson have both seen "taking the hobbits to isengard"

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E1AeW TIL that there are 153 million orphaned children in the world. This number slightly falls below Russia's population statistics and above Mexico's. Therefore, it would be safe to say that if a country was to be set aside for orphans, it would rank the 9th most populated.
nelYY TIL Though offered a scholarship to Princeton, Ralph Nader's father forced him to decline the offer on the grounds that the family was able to pay Nader's tuition and the funds should go to a student who could not afford it. Nader graduated magna cum laude in 1955.
8nGX TIL that a man almost melted a $33,000,000 gold Fabergé egg he purchased at a flea market for $14,000.
xaAB TIL Pirate Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to take their hats.
xV0jB TIL that in 1908 a meteorite hit Russia with hundreds of times more power than an atom bomb, destroying 500,000 acres of forest, knocking ppl over 40 miles away and causing weather events around the globe - but no one was killed and no impact crater was found.