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TIL Evangeline Lilly agreed to play Tauriel in the Hobbit movies on the condition she would not be part of a love triangle; the love triangle was added during reshoots.

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xVn05 TIL From 1847, Rudolf Wolf started counting sunspots. He peered through a telescope every day, if he could, and recorded the number of spots he observed. Today, all sorts of models use Wolf's sunspot record to predict things like the climate, the orbit of satellites, and the stability of power grids
WkEbo TIL chicken sold in supermarkets are "plumped" with water or brine before being sold, some breasts can be up to 40% water after plumping
mxKao TIL an optical disc called Holographic Versatile Disc was developed that can store up to 6TB of data but never appeared in the market.
vPEW7 TIL the 55-metre (180 ft) Lüneburg Water Tower was built in 1907 in a neo-Gothic style to fit in its urban environment in the middle of the old town, surrounded by medieval streets and churches.
j6L6R TIL That most female cheetahs go their entire lives without raising a single cub to maturity. The species is dependent on "supermoms" that are particularly adept at raising cubs. One such supermom, Eleanor, has mothered at least 10% of all adult cheetahs in the southern Serengeti.