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TIL Japan measures its cultural output in “Gross National Cool”

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yorv TIL Before Alfonso Cuarón directed the third Harry Potter film, he assigned the three leads to write a first person autobiographical essay about their character. Rupert Grint didn’t write his, saying ‘I’m Ron; Ron wouldn’t do it.’ Cuarón replied 'Okay, you do understand your character.’
1Xp7 TIL that Canada won the last ever Olympic Lacrosse Gold Medal, in 1908, and are therefore still the reigning Champions. In fact, they are the ONLY gold medalists ever in the sport.
49o TIL that the inventor of the Super Soaker reinvested most of his earnings from the toy into energy technology research.
x68rk TIL at over 100 years old, Iris Cummings is the sole surviving attendee of the 1936 Nazi-Germany Olympics
d86DK TIL of Íslendingabók (the Book of Icelanders), an online geneaological database formed for anti-incest purposes and because of the fact that all native Icelanders are somehow related.