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TIL that legendary Hollywood producer Hal Roach would employ someone called a “wildie” who was either an insane person or a drunk to sit in his writers’ room and spout crazy ideas whenever they had writer’s block

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R5Z5l TIL the idea that if you connect all of your blood vessels up end to end that it would stretch (100,000km/60,000mi) or 2 and a half times around the world is wrong, it's actually only 9,000km to 19,000km or 5,600mi to 11,800mi. So not even 1 time around the world.
ROv6 TIL that in 1994, Disney purchased the film rights for a movie centered on the Hasbro toy Stretch Armstrong. Danny DeVito was offered and accepted the titular role, but only on the stipulation that there be no jokes regarding his height. The film was subsequently scrapped.
XKvD TIL the first and last British soldiers that died in WWI are, by coincidence, buried 15 feet away from each other.
pYZNA TIL dogs actually have a sense of humour and sometimes do things because they know its funny
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson