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TIL Quentin Tarantino has more than 6000 € late fees at a german video library, for 2 movies he rented during the shoot of Inglourious Basterds in Berlin 5 years ago.

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Bgybd TIL Brazilian athlete Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was a polyglot having learnt English, Finnish, French, Japanese, Italian, German and Spanish. He created the victory lap after winning gold medal at the 1952 Olympics. He also acted in 1959 film "Black Orpheus" which won a prize at Cannes Film Festival
rN9Lo TIL The longest ever personal name was that of a German-born American called Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. His full, unabbreviated name is made up of 26 names, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order, followed by a 666-letter surname
0dQrj TIL of the most enigmatic structure in cell biology: the Vault. Often missing from science text books due to the mysterious nature of their existence, it has been 40 years since the discovery of these giant, half-empty structures, produced within nearly every cell, of every animals, on the planet.
E1JAd TIL former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) met both John Quincy Adams and a young JFK. He'd also relate stories of his grandmother watching the Redcoats invade colonial America.
yVbgX TIL there's a new metabolic surgery that mitigates the effects of diabetes in patients that is being done in Mexico (Surgery does not cure diabetes but it does control it.)