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TIL In South Park’s first season’s, when high-profile celebs offered to be on the show, Parker and Stone purposefully gave them small, non-speaking parts. Jerry Seinfeld withdrew his offer to be on the show when he was given the role of Turkey #2 in the Thanksgiving episode.

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xRR0 TIL of Deborah Sampson who disguised herself as a man to fight in the U.S. Revolutionary War, served in an elite Light Infantry unit and was wounded in battle. After her secret was discovered, she was honorably discharged, but had to fight to receive her veteran’s pension.
AvrB TIL Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole’s 1993 album Facing Future is the best-selling album of all time by a Hawaiian artist. His version of Over the Rainbow has been licensed for many films, TV shows, and commercials. The album reached platinum status in 2005.
wL5M8 TIL that Ridley Scott had plans to adapt the dystopian novel Brave New World into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Ridley Scott ultimately had trouble doing the book justice and stated, “I don’t know what to do with Brave New World. It’s tough….when you reanalyze it, maybe it should stay a book".
5Yw6P TIL that after being killed by Partisans, Mussolini was dumped in Piazzale Loreto, where in 1944 he had 15 partisans murdered and publicly displayed. His corpse was kicked, pissed on, and shot at by the Italian crowd, and he was hung upside-down with a meathook along with other Fascists.
BOZW TIL on British coins, the direction in which the monarch’s head faces alternates with each successive monarch.