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TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to make Harry Potter an animated movie.

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lok5A TIL in Sierra Leone, before getting a driver's license, you have to buy a board game called "The Drivers' Way" and play it at least once. The game involves rolling stoplight-themed dice and moving models of classic cars around a board, together with answering questions about the country’s road laws
GAXVG TIL about “Lucy”. A white dwarf star, that is one of the largest diamonds in our local region of the universe.
4XQ06 TIL that in 2020, the first quantum chess tournament was played. In quantum chess, there are multiple boards on which the pieces exist, and any quantum move creates a superposition of boards. In order to determine where the entangled piece is actually located, a player must make a measurement
awOjJ TIL childhood bullying can cause lifelong psychological damage in adults, including depression, anxiety, social withdrawal and severe trust issues.
8bV TIL that “preposterous” is essentially Latin for “ass-backwards”