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TIL that the scene where Aragorn tosses Gimli during the Battle of Helm’s Deep in The Twin Towers film is a joke on the actual sport of “dwarf tossing”

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yQkwv TIL when Will Smith was 12, his grandma found his profanity-laced notebook and wrote, "Dear Will, truly intelligent people don't have to use words like this to express themselves. Please show the world that you're as smart as we think you are," on the back -- inspiring him to be a "clean" rapper.
XEwDP TIL that contemporary britons seem to have forgotten all about "Splendid Isolation"
yVZwe TIL that in January 2019, a sound installation powered by solar batteries was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play Toto’s “Africa” on an indefinite constant loop.
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