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TIL that Ronald Reagan was strangled nearly to death by his chimpanzee costar

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GAE17 TIL about Kim Hyon hui, a North Korean intelligence agent responsible for the 1987 Korean Air Flight 858 bombing that killed 115 people. Sentenced to death in 1989, she was later pardoned. She later married, lives in South Korea, while her family in the North was sent to a labour camp.
Bg6jd TIL in an effort to produce a non-addictive version of morphine, Charles Romley Alder Wright was the first person to create heroin in 1874.
4BR6 TIL Christoph Waltz is his own voice actor in the German and French dubs of Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained
691RJ TIL, from 461 to 468, the Pope Was Hilarius.
vDnj TIL The original Hoggle Muppet from The Labyrinth resides at The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama.