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TIL a pet tortoise was found alive in a wooden box, 30 years after she went missing

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bWoZ TIL writer Stephen King was so absolutely wasted on Cocaine, Alcohol and other drugs during the 1980’s he does not actually remember writing “Cujo.” He sobered up by the late 80’s after his wife staged an intervention
Wkg7A TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.
reex TIL the final words of writer Roald Dahl, were almost: “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much” to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then injected him with morphine to ease his passing, he uttered his actual last words: “Ow, fuck!”
woM56 TIL In a 2012 interview, Max Von Sydow claimed that Ingmar Bergman contacted him from beyond the grave to prove there was an afterlife.
JY54j TIL In the original Cinderella Story the ball was set over three days, and Cinderella had eluded him the first two nights, so the prince had set a mousetrap and covered the palace stairs in tar to catch Cinderella before she escaped.