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TIL there was a plan to make a movie about The Marx Brothers causing havoc at the United Nations in New York. It was to be directed by Billy Wilder ("The Apartment", "Some Like it Hot", ... )

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A61o TIL Charles Korsmo, the boy in Hook, Dick Tracy, What About Bob?, and Can’t Hardly Wait, quit acting, went to MIT, then got his JD from Yale and is now Assistant Professor of Law at Case Western.
neXPb TIL cocaine and nicotine have been found in the hair of ancient Egyptian mummies
e0rr4 TIL that Japan has an annual penis festival.
kO4R5 TIL I learned that Zazu (that hornbill bird) from Disney’s The Lion King was voiced by Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean.
rR8Oy TIL the 435 illustrations in John Audubon’s book “The Birds of America”, which feature 1,037 species of birds, were life-sized. The pages were 39x26 in. (about 100x66 cm).