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TIL Gary Oldman had roles in so many movies such as Harry Potter (as Sirus Black), Léon: The Professional, JFK, and Hannibal, also featuring in AAA games such as COD: Black Ops as Sgt. Viktor Reznov. His acting and role-playing are so exceptional that many people don't even recognize him in movies.

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YpKar TIL the first official Canadian Football game was recorded as having taken place in November 1861 at the University of Toronto - eight years earlier than the first official American Football game, which took place in November 1869.
wo6X6 TIL about Operation Paul Bunyan, where the US cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ as a response to the murder of two officers, deploying over 800 soldiers and air support without any shots fired. The operation left a 19-foot stump as a reminder of the incident.
9YDaG TIL monkeys show signs of both risk aversion and loss aversion, and can be taught to use currency - in experiments with statistically identical outcomes, monkeys performed like humans in preferring to avoid risky transactions, and by putting more weight on losses than on gains
d8GDK TIL that giant squid brains are donut shaped and their esophagus runs right through it, making grinding its food into tiny pieces an evolutionary priority
ylEv TIL that in 1982, the arcade video game industry’s revenue in quarters was estimated at $8 billion(equivalent to $18.87 billion in 2012), more then the annual gross revenue of both music ($4 billion) and Hollywood films ($3 billion) combined that year.