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TIL Matthew McConaughey gave up on going to law school in 1993 to go into acting. His breakout movie role came in 1996, as a lawyer.

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mjmY TIL that although many Evangelicals oppose the ‘Harry Potter’ series, prominent leaders of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) church have recommended the series and spoke of being fans because the books teach morality and show good being victorious over evil
6EMd8 Hong Kong-based students, Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li designed a door handle that uses light to always keep itself sterilized. The students were inspired by the SARS outbreak in the 2000s and figured that a self-sanitizing door handle is more effective than the chemical-based cleaning processes we are using right now. The handle is made of a glass tube with aluminum caps at each end and the entire handle is covered in a powdered photocatalytic coating made from a mineral called titanium dioxide. The bacteria is decomposed through a chemical reaction that is activated by UV light reacting with the thin coating on the glass tube.
dDWaZ TIL Blur's "Song 2" was intended to be a joke on their record company. To their surprise, the executives loved the song, released it as a single and it became one of their biggest hits.
WeRd TIL James Huberty called a mental health clinic, left his name, and waited for hours for them to return his call. His name was written down as “Shouberty” and the call was a non crisis because Huberty was so polite. 1 day later he carried out one of Americas worst rampage killings.
m1n4M TIL in November 2022 Edwin Castro of California won a world-record $2.05b in the state’s Mega Millions, the largest ever for a national lottery. The ticket cost $2.