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TIL that Ayn Rand enrolled in Medicare and Social Security

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44Ma TIL The top 15 of all Top-Selling games of all time all belong to Nintendo. The only Game on the top 20 that isn’t Nintendo is ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’.
QJpRe TIL that consuming too much lean protein can cause symptoms similar to broad malnutrition in a condition known as protein poisoning, or more colloquially called "rabbit poisoning" due to the first observed cases in frontiersmen who ate nothing but wild rabbits over the winter and developed symptoms.
57n8 TIL of the European Working Time Directive. It is illegal to average more than 48hrs of work per week. A minimum of 20 days holiday pa and payment in lieu of holiday not allowed.
9YYLD TIL J.J. Abrams' based the character of Maz Kanata in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" on his late high school English teacher, Rose Gilbert.
5YPmr TIL that Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and turned it down because he 'never understood the script', causing him to loose out on 450 million dollars