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TIL that professional actor John Bradley (who portrayed Samwell Tarley in the TV adaptation of Game Of Thrones) had only graduated from drama school three months before landing his GOT role, which was also his first audition.

epmVn TIL Astronaut Ron McNair played the first musical instrument in space in 1984. He was a tenor saxophone player but could only fit a curved soprano sax. He got to play it in space but there was a media blackout at the time
MeoJK TIL that the Germans saw the signing of the treaty of Versailles as humiliating defeat. The treaty was signed in the Compiègne Wagon. When the French surrendered to the Germans in 1940, Hitler had the wagon taken out of a museum and placed in the same spot for signing the new armistice.
v1ZnD TIL about DNP,a chemical that causes rapid weight loss in humans.It was prescribed to 100,000 people in the 1930s in the US and then discontinued after 2 people used 10x the recommended dose and died.It's being studied as potential treatment for obesity,Alzheimer's,Parkinson's diseases and epilespy.
mXrp TIL a guy dissected every scene from lost and put them in a chronological timeline. He took every flashback, flash forward, and flash sideways, extracting them from the present day stroyline, and one big timeline.
VWVB TIL the “Battle of B-R5RB”. It was an epic digital battle in EVE online and it costed $300,000 in real world money.It began when someone forgot to pay an in-game rent for an in-game space station.