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TIL that Ook, the owl that played Hedwig, was the first actor cast in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

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4lLb TIL that Turkmenistan possesses the world’s fourth largest reserves of natural gas resources. Since 1993, citizens have received government-provided electricity, water and natural gas free of charge.
7rdYZ TIL: The famous WWII Battle of the Bulge was so named because the German western front in Europe had a pronounced bulge (~70 x 50 miles) into Belgium. The Allies attacked the flanks of the bulge and eventually secured victory at a cost of more than 90,000 casualities
Yn5A TIL Affirmative Action is referred to as “Positive Discrimination” in the UK
647Z TIL mathematician Paul Erdős, an avid amphetamine user, once accepted a friend’s $500 challenge to stay clean for 30 days. Erdős won the bet, but complained that “mathematics has been set back by a month”.
Br0kb TIL the second ingredient of Campbell’s Tomato Soup is high fructose corn syrup. So much for nostalgia, but welcome to my drain, sugar-soup!