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TIL New Zealand Council pays a wizard $16,000 a year to "provide acts of wizardry"

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KOAR9 TIL of the film '100 Years', due to be released in November 2115. Written by and starring John Malkovich, the film is kept in a high-tech, bulletproof glass safe that will open automatically on its release date, 100 years after its announcement
7E7x TIL in the 1980 US presidential election neither Jimmy Carter nor Ronald Reagan were allowed to privately raise funds, as they could only spend the money that was allocated to them under federal election law
4XvNJ TIL After an internet vote for a new middle name, Macaulay Culkin legally changed his name to Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
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GY051 TIL when John Carpenter was at University he was required to visit a mental institution and saw a boy with a blank, pale, emotionless face who eventually became the inspiration for Michael Myers in his Halloween movies.