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TIL Despite his lead role as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Daniel Craig was reportedly awful at Poker. Le Chiffre actor Mads Mikkelsen recalled, “Everybody knew how to play poker actually around that table, except for one, Daniel. He had no clue. He sucked.”

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5egP TIL that the great-grandfather of Russian author Alexander Pushkin, was black. An African slave bought for Peter the Great, he became a major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and a nobleman
nWxlo TIL The most expensive sports card is 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card (Topps; #311) , sold for 12.6 million $ on August 28, 2022, breaking all previous records.
R7bj9 TIL, the quietest room in the world measures at -9 dB, and will drive you mad. One reporter lasted up to 45 minutes, and most people leave after half that time, tortured by the eerie sounds of their own body.
GOJQ TIL of the “idiot plot”. The term was popularized by film critic Roger Ebert, who defines it as “[a]ny plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots”.
E1bn0 TIL the first statue of a black person in Bristol, UK was erected in 1987 and is of the playwright and poet Alfred Fagon