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TIL Amazon won the right to produce a Lord of the Rings series (Rings of Power) without pitching the Tolkien estate a specific story. Instead, Amazon promised to work closely with the estate to "protect Tolkien's legacy", which the estate felt they were unable to do with previous adaptations.

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kMMW TIL Switzerland has enough nuclear blast shelters to accommodate 114% of their population
wo8Do TIL that TON 618, 18.2 billion light years from Earth, is one of the largest black holes in the universe. The gas cloud that surrounds it has a diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs(330,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way.
O9Ba TIL Field Marshall Montgomery once made a bet with Walter Bedell Smith that is if he could capture the city of Sfax by April 1943 he would receive a B17 bomber. When Monty completed his half of the bet, Smith backed out: The matter escalated all the way to Eisenhower who ensured Monty got his B17.
OoY0R TIL Researchers at King's College London found that the drug Tideglusib stimulates the stem cells contained in the pulp of teeth so that they generate new dentine – the mineralised material under the enamel.
VRkZ TIL In the past 6 months, Oklahoma has had 183 earthquakes above a 3.0 in magnitude. The previous 30 years combined they had 60 earthquakes.