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TIL Grumpy Cat’s net worth is $100 million

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W75rA TIL Atticus Shaffer, who played Brick in The Middle, has brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta). It makes his bones fragile, but he used it to shape his unique character and still built a strong acting career.
GBEG TIL that the actor who played 11 year-old Voldemort (a.k.a. Tom Riddle) in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is the nephew of Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played the grown-up Voldemort in the final 5 films.
Me5jm TIL that Ernest Hemingway worked for the KGB, tracked Nazi U-Boats from his fishing boat in Cuba, got charged with war crimes while leading a French militia against the Nazis, and had a six toed cat (marked as NSFW for other information provided in link)
yQQge TIL that after Germany's openly-gay Foreign Minister called the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko "Europe's last dictator", Lukashenko responded that it was "better to be a dictator than gay".
OpNa TIL 350 million years ago, when the newly evolved trees were just 1 foot in height, the landscape was dominated by giant 20 foot tall mushrooms