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TIL Bill Hader once worked as an usher at a movie theater and was fired for spoiling the end of Titanic to noisy patrons.

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JWEm TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel did not want one.
x6kJ7 TIL James Nasmyth discovered fine scale solar features, which he painted in detail and called 'willow-leaf-shaped objects in 1860. Now known as solar granulation, their existence was disputed for many years
V1g0 TIL Jake Lloyd, who played Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, was so tormented as a result of his role that he gave up acting. “Other children were really mean to me…They would make the sound of the lightsaber every time they saw me.”
xOGD TIL Lego bricks are very consistent, with only 18 bricks out of every 1000000 made being considered defective. The design and manufacture of bricks is also consistent enough to allow bricks manufactured today to interlock with those manufactured in 1958.
ajvy TIL there is a school for the deaf in Arkansas and their mascot is the leopard. So they are the deaf leopards.