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TIL Christopher Lee not only was a huge Tolkien fan as far back as when the books were written but he actively shaped his career so that he could play a wizard when the films are eventually made.

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n9YG TIL hosting the 2006 World Cup caused Germany to experience baby boom. Nine months after the football competition, birthrate in Germany is up to 30% higher compared with the same period in the year before.
78867 TIL Dr Seuss's original Lorax drawings are found in Austin, at the presidential library of Lyndon B Johnson. Johnson and his wife were environmentalists and he called Seuss personally to thank him for donating the original artwork to the Johnson archive
E1YLX TIL in Norway, everyone's salary is public record and available online.
ma9M TIL of an experiment in a hospital where the sign at a hand-washing station was changed from “Hand hygiene prevents you from catching diseases” to “Hand hygiene prevents patients from catching diseases” resulting in a 45% increase in the use of soap or hand sanitizer.
nWp4B TIL while abiotic synthesis of chiral molecules always yields an equal mixture of their enantiomers, the biomolecules that make up life are always chiral and single-handed. Sientists believe that figuring out how life emerged from a racemic prebiotic world is key to undersanding the origin of life.