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

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worOJ TIL at least 90% of the human genome is non-functional and commonly referred to as "junk DNA"
VLeG TIL that in Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender’s income. In October 2001, Anssi Vanjoki (at the time a director at Nokia) was ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros after being caught driving at 75 km/h in a 50km/h zone.
BrZRr TIL In 1964, Zambian teacher and freedom fighter Edward Mukuka Nkoloso started a space program. Weightlessness training involved rolling downhill in an oil drum, flight was planned to be via catapulting from a tree and the crew consisted of a 16 year old girl, a Christian missionary and some cats.
4RPg TIL when an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. he taught Indian fighting exercises to the Chinese monks in order to improve their physical condition. All kung-fu is thought to have evolved from this beginning.
NX54e TIL Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married an 18-year-old girl named Mandy Smith. After they divorced, Wyman’s son (30) married Mandy’s mother (46). This made Wyman the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law and step-grandfather of his ex-wife.