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TIL Kit Harrington showed up to his "Game of Thrones" audition with a black eye after getting into a fight at McDonald's the night before. His performance was so good the casting director didn't even notice.

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LL6Z TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and would scare his guests by driving into a lake, screaming about brake failure.
1x1D TIL that an 18 year old was sentenced to 17 years in prison for statutory rape, his consensual underage partner was male. If it had been a girl, the maximum sentence would have been 15 months. He served in prison for 5 years until the Kansas Supreme Court ordered his release.
ne77Y TIL of the French Red Zone. WW1 areas in France with access still forbidden today. The area is saturated with unexploded shells (including gas shells), grenades and rusty ammo. Soils heavily polluted by lead, mercury, chlorine, arsenic, various dangerous gases, acids, and human and animal remains
E1w8W TIL that in 1712 a swiss doctor found a skeleton that he thought was a human who died in the flood of Noah. In 1826, George's Cuvier, one of the founders of paleontology, reexamined it. It turned out to be a giant salamander.
MQjb TIL Steve Carell owns and operates a general store in Marshfield, Massachusetts.