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TIL hours before he shot and killed John Lennon on December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman had John autograph his copy of "Double Fantasy".

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wo50E TIL that Charles Dickens was a great lover of cats, so much so that when one of his beloved cats, Bob, passed away, Dickens was so upset that his sister-in-law fashioned one of Bob's paws into a letter opener. Dickens kept this at his side as he wrote and he used it every morning to open his mail.
BrnLx TIL that Captain Marvel was originally portrayed by a man, western actor Tom Tyler
4Z0J TIL that Peter the Great of Russia stood 6'8" tall. The average height at the time (1700s) was 5'4".