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TIL that, as a child, Jack Black (real name Thomas Jacob Black) appeared in a commercial for the 1982 Atari videogame "Pitfall!"

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QJJaa TIL In order to preserve important anagrams & acronyms in the Harry Potter series, the names of various things & people differ by language. For example, in the French translation, Tom Marvolo Riddle is called Tom Elvis Jedusor—an anagram for "Je suis Voldemort.”
e0QoE TIL in the event of a nuclear attack, the United States will not engage in MAD, but will try to prevent and deal with the effects of a strike, then decide if it wants to retaliate with a nuclear attack of its own
4XEkg TIL of "The Immortal Game", a casual match between chess grand masters in the interim of the first international chess tournament. Despite not being an official match, it is considered one of the most famous matches of all time.
wLMLW TIL at its peak in 1920 the British Empire reigned over 26.35% of the surface of the world
Gra1 TIL Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, wrote: “Good thing I was too stupid to know this” on a academic report stating gas turbine aircraft engines were “beyond the realm of possibility”.