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TIL Dr Pepper is older than Coca Cola

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8aDMb TIL that the director of The Notebook wanted someone "not handsome" for the male lead in the movie, so he cast Ryan Gosling for the role.
b9jep TIL: That the Latin word for intoxicated is crapulence.
691RJ TIL, from 461 to 468, the Pope Was Hilarius.
PYwPe TIL that, when he died in 2008, Heath Ledger —himself a highly ranked chess champion — had been preparing to direct a screen adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit.
GAnGN TIL Gandalfs stand at Minas Tirith in The Lord of The Rings books was based on a real bishop who mounted a hopeless defense against the Magyars until the emperor came to relieve him with an army of heavy knights.