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TIL Benedict Cumberbatch played both Doctor Strange and Dormammu.

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VMb0p TIL that there is a town in Alaska called Whittier, and nearly everyone in that town lives in the same building.
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nK7d TIL that Novelist Stephen King said that Professor Umbridge from the Harry Potter series is the “greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter.”
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