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TIL The theme tune for Mr Bean is sung in latin and says "Behold the man, who is a bean"

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1an0X TIL that JRR Tolkien wrote the Lord of The Rings while he was a visiting English professor at the university in Galway, Ireland. It’s widely believed that the nearby Burren region influenced his depiction of Middle Earth and that “Gollum” was named after a cave in the region called “Poll na gColm”
Ypj4B TIL in addition to being a solid NBA player, Andrei Kirilenko is a huge World of Warcraft fan and got a full-back WOW tattoo. Also, his wife allowed him to cheat on her once per year.
W8rY TIL Gardiners Island in New York is one of the United States’ largest private islands, has been owned by the Gardiner family for almost 400 years, and was granted to them by the King of England. It also has New York State’s oldest building on it, built in 1639.
4XDVg TIL Ghana is considered ‘Africa for beginners’, while its neighbour Nigeria is ‘Africa for the very experienced’, due to its reputation as one of the world’s most difficult places to travel in. Away from the expat suburbs of Lagos, Westerners are a rare sight
e0XAJ TIL that in the Czech Republic denial of communist-perpetrated atrocities is illegal.