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TIL that when asked for a sequel to The Hobbit, Tolkien initially submitted a draft of The Silmarillion which was rejected by the publishers, who wanted another story about hobbits.

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wO5Y TIL Michael Cera’s first role with lines was in a Pilsbury Doughboy Commercial
4B4N TIL that XHamster has a higher Alexa rating, #55, than BBC, CNN, and Netflix, who have #61, #62, #86, respectively.
nWlm9 TIL In 1966, the United States Air Force lost 4 hydrogen bombs above Palomares (Spain) after a midair collision. Two of these bombs spreaded radioactive material, including plutonium-239, over a wide area. A large amount of contaminated Spanish soil was removed, packed up, and ship to the US.
xWj0 TIL that when President Roosevelt visited The Pentagon in 1945 before its dedication he ordered them to remove the whites only signes and therefore making The Pentagon the only building in Virginia were segregation laws were not enforced until 1965.
KOl56 TIL that Cards Against Humanity joked about how they could have bought a small private island with the money they donated to charity. So in 2014 they did, renaming it “Hawaii 2”