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TIL that the actor who plays Gimli in LOTR is as tall as the one who plays Hagrid in Harry Potter

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9YYJM TIL that telling other people about your goals gives the illusion you're closer to achieving them, making you less likely to complete them
GZO7 TIL Kars 4 Kids, invests less than half of their donations to Kids, and instead loses millions on failed real estate holdings and religious conversion day camps. They’re being investigated by the attorney general’s office in two states.
9YNZX TIL In an effort to reduce the high number of suicides on South Korea’s Mapo Bridge, it was unofficially renamed the Bridge of Life. It was decorated with positive affirmations and even sympathetic sculptures. Suicides increased sixfold the following year.
LwRv TIL “Judas” goats helped eradicate invasive goats in the Galápagos Islands. These goats are sterilized, GPS tracked, and given hormones to attract other goats so that armed hunters could kill all the goats from a helicopter, but leave the Judas goats alive so they could be used to find more goats.
YkGW TIL because of “Hollywood Accounting”, most movies (including blockbusters) have technically not turned a profit allowing Hollywood to not pay certain contributors.