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TIL Warwick Davis is younger than Peter Dinklage

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J1l9B TIL John Nash, who was portrayed in the movie A Beautiful Mind, died in a car crash with his wife on the New Jersey Turnpike in 2015 while coming home from Norway where he received the Abel Prize
XErkD TIL actor Humphrey Bogart was an avid chess player, often playing on set between takes. During World War II, he played correspondence chess with members of the military posted overseas or in hospitals. The FBI intercepted this mail and thought he was sending secret codes to Europe.