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TIL of Santo Condorelli, a Canadian swimmer, who gives his dad the middle finger before every race he participates in.

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5Y1D TIL Natalie Portman helped with the writing of “The Social Network” by providing inside information about the social life at Harvard because she was a Harvard student at the time Facebook first appeared there. The lines “Who was the movie star?”, “Does it matter?” in the movie refers to her.
XDWX TIL In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.
4XWeN TIL about Amy Rorbach, a reporter for ABC News, who underwent a mammogram live on air in 2013 to promote the procedure for Breast Cancer Awareness month. It was discovered that she did have cancer, and the procedure likely saved her life.
GA7bQ TIL that Robin Williams was turned down to play Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies (and so was Rosie O’Donnell for Molly Weasley).
gM054 TIL that the moon has uneven gravitation as there are locations of large, dense regions called mass concentrations, or mascons, which are characterized by strong gravitational pull