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TIL that the grandfather of actor Tom Felton (Draco from Harry Potter) is Nigel Anstey - a geophysicist who has made major contributions to seismic exploration, which are the foundations for many of the techniques used in today's oil and gas exploration. Nigel was born in 1927 and is still alive.

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R5mv1 TIL there are ants that stink: "odorous house ants"
GYLrE TIL about the "Herald of Free Enterprise," a ferry that capsized and killed 193 people because the crew forgot to close the bow doors.
y8Rv TIL the ocean liner Olympic, sister ship to Titanic, became the only merchant vessel in WWI to sink an enemy warship when she rammed U-boat U-103.
EaZd TIL in Japan, those who are sentenced to death don’t know the day they will be executed until the actual day comes
Xda6 TIL Israeli elementary schools tend not to use the ’+’ symbol since it looks like the Christian cross.