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TIL that Doug Kenney, co founder of the National Lampoon and writer of Caddyshack was known to be suicidal, fell off a cliff while walking in Hawaii. His good friend Harold Ramis said, "he probably fell while looking for a place to jump"

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MeZEa TIL that in October 1940 the Soviet Union was offered an entry into the Axis powers; but agreements upon spheres of influences weren't reached.
d8BXQ TIL in the film Tomorrow Is Forever, child actress Natalie Wood was unable to cry on cue, until her mother tore a butterfly to pieces in front of her to ensure she would sob. Her co-star, Orson Welles, called Wood a born professional, "so good, she was terrifying."
yQm8v TIL that the movie What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) was produced by Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Ramtha is an alleged entity channelled by J.Z. Knight said to be over 35,000 years old and from Atlantis and Lemuria, where he was in charge of an army of over a million people.
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QJlwd TIL of Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - he "financed the final years" of the American Revolution," turned down an appointment as first Treasury Secretary and recommended Alexander Hamilton, and subsequently served time in debtors' prison.