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TIL Russian has surpassed German the second most used language on the web (behind English)

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0VyN TIL John Rhys-Davies who played Gimli the dwarf in Lord of the Rings is the tallest member of the Fellowship at 6'1"
VBp18 TIL in WWII a killed US service member had a 19% chance of never having their body recovered
xV5Vw TIL: In 2010, Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay as his address. When he tried to tell them that Fort Gay actually exists in West Virginia, it took an appeal from the town’s mayor for it to be corrected.
6E8rl TIL Tom and Jerry and Popeye cartoons were secretly made in 60s in communist Czechoslovakia and names of the staff were americanized to avoid backlash
gN69 TIL $100,000,000 lawsuit claiming the film Sister Act was plagiarized from a book A Nun in the Closet. Disney offered $1,000,000 to settle of out court the but the plaintiffs declined. Eventually the judge found in favor of Disney and the other defendants, the plaintiffs got nothing.