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TIL Game of thrones revceives money from the Irish Government to keep airing because their innitial investment of 9 million pounds returned 65 million pounds through GOT related tourism.

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5JLQ TIL Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on the 007 title song for “Goldfinger”
loe5G TIL that there is a remote, Alpine village in Austria with a population of just over 1,000 which has its own underground/metro line. It’s just 1.3 km long, has 4 stations and connects a parking lot with some ski lifts located at the opposite ends of the village.
VMOb0 TIL A Navy study showed that washing hands 5 times daily reduced incidence of respiratory infections by 45% over a two year period.
JYYv4 TIL of an unnamed Chinese man who was constipated for 22 years and looked 9 months pregnant. Surgeons removed 13kg/29lbs of poop from his abdomen. He suffered from a rare congenital disease known as Hirschsprung, which causes constipation due to missing nerves inside the colon.
4XLBR TIL: The vampire squid is not a squid or an octopus. It is the only living member of Vampyromorpha, an ancient cephalopod order which was a precursor to squids and octopuses