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TIL there’s an “endless wave” in the Amazon that can be surfed for ten kilometers or more.

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VvMm TIL that Harry Potter’s stuntman was paralysed in the last film during an explosion scene.
696eQ TIL about Barry Keenan who became the youngest member of the LA Stock Exchange at 21, got addicted to painkillers and went broke, kidnapped Frank Sinatra's son and was sentenced to life in prison, got released early, and died a real-estate millionaire
9YK8B TIL that Walt Disney took out multiple loans to finance Snow White, evening mortgaging his own house to pay for it. At the time, insiders in the film industry thought the film would bomb and called it “Disney’s Folly”. Even Walt’s wife, Lillian, thought it would bomb.
d5ZB TIL the Japanese have a word (tsundoku [積ん読]) for the habit of buying a lot of books and never reading them.
woVlP TIL that in 1846 following the Bear Flag Revolt, California was its own country for 25 days.