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TIL Brent McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords was an extra in LOTR Return of the King. Fans have since dubbed his character, Figwit.

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1aZjr TIL that in 1904 a Swedish sailor, Carl Emil Pettersson, was shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibals. The kings daughter fell in love with him. They married and he eventually became king of the island.

Bvxk TIL Japan’s flagship high-speed line, the Tokaido Shinkansen, has operated for almost half a century without a single derailment or collision, and in 2007, its average departure delay was a mere 18 seconds along its 320-mile route.

woEP TIL a good amount of Bermuda and the Caribbean islands’ land is “African dust”: soil particles that have flown clear across the Atlantic Ocean in dust storms

9wY6M TIL of the 1925 dystopian novel 'Berlin Without Jews'. In the book, a far-right nationalist political party takes power and expels all Jews from Germany, while society at large does nothing to stop them. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the author committed suicide.

m6mP TIL the US Army had a super Nintendo game for teaching shooting skills.