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TIL Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies and said “It’s just like withdrawing a billion dollars and putting it into your personal bank accounts. There’s no challenge.”

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16pbd TIL about Danish Pålægschokolade, which translates to “chocolate to put on bread”. They are thin slices of chocolate that are used as a topping on bread, such as rye or white bread, similar to how chocolate spread is used in many countries.
wEQP TIL that early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
KYmaa TIL about the Scoppio Del Carro in Florence, Italy. This 300 year old Easter celebration shoots a flaming mechanical bird into a cart full of fireworks. A successful explosion means good luck in the future!
XE4nj TIL Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the term god has no coherent and unambiguous definition and/or that every other theological position assumes too much about the concept of god and many other theological concepts.
p81Z TIL Joseph Stalin was a huge fan of American western movies, and would often ring up his underlings at all hours of the night to make them come and watch cowboy movies with him.