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TIL John Williams' soundtrack in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" lost to Howard Shore's score of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" for Best Original Score. Critical reactions to the soundtrack were almost universally positive

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VkdG TIL days after his election, a boy wrote to Pope John XXIII “I want to be a policeman or a pope. What do you think?” John replied, “Learn how to be a policeman… Anybody can be a pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”
W70do TIL About Diana Budisavljević, the female Schindler, who undertook one of the greatest humanitarian acts in WWII, by saving over 7,700 children from concentration camps in the area of what is today's Croatia
ADaex TIL That Drew Carey no longer needs glasses to see. He had LASIK in 2001. He continues to wear glasses because it’s part of his image.
Egx0 TIL that Mr. T’s real name is “Laurence Tureaud”
1XwV TIL that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.