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4XA96 TIL Brendan Gleeson (the man who played Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter movies) is the father of Domhnall Gleeson (the man who played Bill Weasley).
XEljk TIL: Before 1859 baseball umpires sat in a rocking chair 20 feet behind home plate
4XalN TIL about the game "Conkers," a traditional English childhood game using chestnuts
78ZkZ TIL Michelangelo painted a hidden self-portrait on a fresco inside the Sistine Chapel--as the remains of the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew
0Dbj TIL in 1929 the US supreme court voted 8 -1 in favor a Euginics program requiring forced sterilization of citizens deemed not smart enough to reproduce