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TIL: A fortune cookie company once foretold the lottery, resulting in 110 winners

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QJG1e TIL that "public school" in England means essentially the opposite as it does in the US. In the US public schools are the "common" schools funded by taxes. In England they are elite boarding schools.
GXn5 TIL Viggo Mortensen was asked to reprise his role as Aragon in the Hobbit trilogy, but declined on the account that it wouldn’t be ‘historically’ accurate
0dMpR TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms.
Zp84G TIL in San Francisco, the artists Winston Smith and Jayed Scotti distributed false posters for bands and clubs that didn't exist. Often, the addresses shown on the flyers were located in the Pacific Ocean.
DQnaJ TIL that Krazy Kat, William Randolph Hearst's favorite kartoon kat, was gender fluid: sometimes male, sometimes female, but always in love with the (male) Ignatz Mouse.