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TIL that Daniel Radcliffe is a recovering alcoholic and would sometimes go to set for Harry Potter still drunk from the night before.

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Yp4RP TIL about Juliane Diller who, at 17, survived a plane explosion then fell to the ground still strapped to her seat. She then survived by following a river for nine days until she came across some loggers who rescued her.
Eevx TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.
QNKN6 TIL World War Z author Max Brooks balances dual fellowships at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Modern War Institute at West Point
g1n8 TIL the longest-serving death row inmate is a Japanese former boxer. He’s been in solitary confinement for 44 years. And he could well be innocent, as a 2012 DNA test revealed.
kaam TIL Harrison Ford isn’t grumpy in all his interviews, he actually suffers from anxiety and a fear of public speaking.