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TIL A 71 year old man was acquitted of murder after claiming self-defense when another moviegoer threw popcorn at him

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Y7Ged TIL Wallace Shawn(Princess Bride, Toy Story, etc) began his acting career starring in an adaption of The Mandrake, a comedy written by Niccolo Machiavelli, the author of The Prince. Shawn translated the script to english himself
R7eGw TIL about Beauty, a Bald Eagle whose beak was shot off by a hunter. Bird sanctuary workers 3D-printed a prosthetic beak for her until her actual beak grew back.
X0MMj TIL that when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 Pablo Picasso and his friends were initially considered prime suspects
aw5L TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”
LkAwr TIL: The original 1992 Candyman film used an on set hypnotist to help one of the actors act more realistically scared.