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TIL that Alan Rickman (known for playing Severus Snape in Harry Potter) was in Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells II

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57aB TIL that families with a kid who qualifies for the National School Lunch program can get a $150 computer and $10/month internet access
BrWPk TIL that debunking a famed fake mechanical chess player helped set Edgar Allan Poe on the path to mystery writing
Yp5kG TIL about Rosie the Ribiter, the American Bullfrog that holds the record for longest frog jump with a leap of 21 ft, 5 in in 1986. The prize for anybody to beat the record stands at $5000 USD
R57B7 TIL that when natural gas producers have a surplus, they can pump it into massive underground salt caverns for storage, some 6,000 feet underground.
LXY9 TIL that the T.V. show Futurama is the current most critically acclaimed animated series