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TIL That many competitive Scrabble players quit playing competitively after hundreds of “offensive” words were banned, including racial slurs, sexuality and gender insults.

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bxnj TIL more than two dozen animals, including sheep and goats, perished from dehydration and exhaustion during a hiatus in the production of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but the film still received the disclaimer “No animals harmed during the making.”
WXrX TIL voice actress Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” at age 13, and again at age 64 for “Kingdom Hearts”
Drkj TIL 1.2 million golden orb spiders were individually collected to weave the largest piece of golden spider silk cloth in the world
0wEdA TIL that actress Jennifer Tilly’s father was of Chinese descent and that her birth name was Jennifer Elizabeth Chan
mxwox TIL: A master player of the Chinese strategy game Go has decided to retire, due to the rise of artificial intelligence that "cannot be defeated".