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TIL: Gandalf’s sword Glamdring is in Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne.

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kJO77 TIL in 2011, a 29-year-old Australian bartender found an ATM glitch that allowed him to withdraw way beyond his balance. In a bender that lasted four-and-half months, he managed to spend around $1.6 million of the bank’s money.
VMGvD TIL that director Fritz Lang had a meeting with Goebbels
N7KDJ TIL That the physicist Freeman Dyson proposed a system called a Dyson tree to convert a comet into a habitat using a genetically modified plant. It would absorb nutrients and water from the comet and create a breathable atmosphere.
LkxWZ TIL that the reason Mr. T wore so many gold chains and jewelry was because customers would lose the items or leave them at the night club where he worked as a bouncer. He would stand outside the club wearing the items in case a customer came back looking for them so that he could return the items.
KOlw4 TIL when Robin Wright showed up at Rob Reiner's house to meet William Goldman, the door opened and "[Wright] was standing there in this little white summer dress, with her long blonde hair, and she had a halo from the sun. She was backlit by God. And Bill Goldman… said, 'Well, that's what I wrote.'"