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TIL HBO programming president Michael Lombardo didn’t understand why fans of Game of Thrones wouldn’t want the show to catch up with the books. He said: “I finally understand fans’ fear—which I didn’t a couple years ago…Let’s all hope and pray that’s not going to be a problem.”

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XE0Ar TIL about the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) which employs 17,000 that’s responsible for registration and monitoring sensitive government databases of all the national citizens of Pakistan.
VnQ4 TIL a bag of Skittles contains fifty percent of your daily recommended vitamin C.
GXB4 TIL Macaulay Culkin got paid $100,000 for Home Alone 1 in 1990. In 1992 for Home Alone 2, he was paid $4.5 Million and in 1994 for Ri¢hie Ri¢h… $8Mil.
8aD88 TIL Union General William Sherman instructed his troops to differentiate between the "usually hostile" rich and the "usually neutral or friendly" industrious/poor when "appropriating" horses, mules, wagons etc. during Sherman's March to the Sea
8aRj8 TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour