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TIL that professional actor John Bradley (who portrayed Samwell Tarley in the TV adaptation of Game Of Thrones) had only graduated from drama school three months before landing his GOT role, which was also his first audition.

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wDXE TIL that actor Andre Royo’s portrayal of the heroin addicted character “Bubbles” from The Wire was so good, that an actual Baltimore citizen gave Royo a vial of heroin on the streets in between shoots, saying, “you need a fix more than I do.” Royo calls it his “Street Oscar.”
ADPKw TIL red and yellow peppers are more expensive than green ones simply because they are left to ripen longer on the vine.
QNlpX TIL the richest person in China (and 15th globally) is Zhong Shanshan, the founder and chairman of China's largest bottled water company. He is worth about $69 billion USD as of present - a bit more than Mark Zuckerberg.
gMjW7 TIL that a 59 year old American woman named Velma Thomas came back to life after being declared dead 17 hours earlier, and she had even been taken off life support.
M77rK TIL Kate Bush wrote the song 'The Man with the Child in His Eyes' when she was 13, and recorded it at age 16