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TIL Gandalf store his smoking pipe in his staff!

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R49Q TIL the"French Butter Dish" keeps room-temp butter fresh using an upside-down cup placed in a dish with water, forming a seal against air.
W09L TIL Sir Richard Attenborough (John Hammond from Jurassic Park) and his parents adopted 2 Jewish-German girls 9 months before World War II broke out because their house had been smashed by Nazi’s and their father taken away
4R8J TIL after a Soviet hostage was found dead, KGB agents castrated the nephew of the hostage taker and sent the severed organs as well as a list of other known family members to the hostage taker. The remaining Soviet hostages were quickly released.
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