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TIL that all the members of the Fellowship of the Ring got a tattoo of the word “nine,” except for Gimli.

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w8A8 TIL that the ancient Egyptians developed a pregnancy test that could accurately predict the gender of the baby 70% of the time.
b9LG0 TIL that William Hootkins, the actor who played the rebel pilot Porkins in Star Wars: A New Hope, was questioned by the FBI after the assassination of JFK, was school classmates with Tommy Lee Jones, and studied astrophysics and oriental studies at Princeton University.
xWlo TIL the population of Kabul, Afghanistan has grown from 500,000 in 2001 to about 4 million today after the elimination of the Taliban regime.
4m16 TIL Cisco owns the iOS trademark and licenses it to Apple
JNjB TIL The King of Jordan, King Abdullah II, appeared as an extra on an episode of Star Trek and is currently building a Star Trek themed amusement park in Jordan.