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TIL that Ryan Gosling was fired from The Lovely Bones after gaining 60 pounds for the role by drinking melted Häagen-Dazs ice cream. He had envisioned the character as overweight, but the director disagreed, leading to his dismissal.

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9GP7 TIL Out of eleven cases of blood alcohol content higher than 1%, Poland holds five
Oo75e TIL that in 2005, a chinese man found that he could still buy lottery tickets within a 5 minute window after the winning numbers were announced. this allowed him to win over $4 million. when chinese authorities caught on, he was sentenced to life in prison
1aRad TIL that George Washington Carver's research into uses for peanuts was motivated by a desire to help poor sharecroppers in the South. At the time, the overproduction of cotton was depleting the soil of nutrients, and the boll weevil infestation threatened to destroy cotton crops.
0X1p TIL if all of Canada was one state in the US, it would have 50 electoral votes – fewer than California.
NXEGP TIL that when a Kazakh athlete won a sharpshooting competition in 2012, the organizers of the event organizers mistakenly played the parody national anthem from "Borat"