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TIL Rory McCann ('The Hound', Game of Thrones) was incredibly anti-social until he learned that fellow actors in the show's group, the 'Brotherhood Without Banners' (Thoros, Lord Beric) were musicians, and formed a band called 'Brotherhood Without Banjos' with them.

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LkNOP TIL dunkin donuts donuts used to have a handle on them to dunk the donuts
Yyg7 TIL that the war on drugs was persecuted as a personal crusade by one man. During his 31 year career,Harry Anslinger helped shape global drugs policy and ordered that a dying Billie Holiday be handcuffed to her death bed
bRR4 TIL that the descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt, once America’s richest man, held a reunion in 1973. Not a single one of them were millionaires.
a8gYN TIL that only three one-letter .com domains in existence: q.com, x.com and z.com. They were registered before 1992 and grandfathered in, but ICANN banned any corporation from being able to own any of the other 23 letters one letter domains.
l7eL7 TIL early American colonists once "stood staring in disbelief at the quantities of fish." One man wrote "there was as great a supply of herring as there is water. In a word, it is unbelievable, indeed, indescribable, as also incomprehensible, what quantity is found there. One must behold oneself."