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TIL that Michael Gambon was such a private person that when asked by a reporter about his wife he replied "What wife?" He later had an affair with a woman 25 years his junior and had 2 kids with her, but bequeathed nearly his whole fortune to his legal wife while his girlfriend got nothing.

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O116 TIL Bryan Cranston spent hundreds of hours practicing roller skating so that he could perform in the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where he teaches Malcom to roller blade.
5YNYQ TIL of the British navy captain John Perkins. Born in Jamaican obscurity he distinguished himself in the British navy. Allowed to captain his own ship he eventually became one of the most successful Georgian Era navy commanders. He is noteworthy as sources describe him as being mulatto or black.
RGEw TIL that trial by combat may still be legal in much of the United States, having never been explicitly repealed.
yQwWV TIL of the fear of crime gender paradox, a term coined by criminologists to describe the fact that women are much more afraid of street crime than men, despite the fact that men are vastly more likely to be victims of said crime.
KlD4 TIL that NYC’s water supply comes from two tunnels that have not been shut down for maintenance since 1917 and 1935. A third tunnel, being built to shut the other two down for repairs, has been under construction since 1970 and isn’t expected to be finished until 2020.