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TIL that Rupert Grint’s first ambition was to be an “Ice Cream Man” and bought an ice cream truck with his Harry Potter money

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eadJ TIL according to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
Y95G TIL a Sudanese man, caught having sex with a neighbor’s goat nicknamed Rose, was ordered by the council of elders to pay the neighbor a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($75) and to marry the animal.
oB6jL TIL: Plants have to have ‘plant passports’ stamped on the side of their pots to travel overseas
jNDAQ TIL of William Cantelo, a British inventor born in 1839 who mysteriously disappeared in the 1880s. His sons developed a theory that he had re-emerged under the name "Hiram Maxim", the inventor of the famous Maxim gun. This was due to a striking resemblance and similar occupation.
jNMvE TIL that the man who first proposed the Big Bang theory was a Catholic Priest