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TIL at the height of his fame actor Stacy Keach was sentenced to 9 months in Reading prison for attempting to smuggle 1.3 ounces of cocaine into the UK

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WjN TIL Steve Carell wanted to play the Joker.
59Yn TIL: Widely publicized testimony given in 1990 claiming Iraqi soldiers took babies out of incubators and left them to die is today admitted to be false and has largely come to be regarded as wartime propaganda.
VMo90 TIL that in 1995 a Florida man buried 9 "unwanted" day-old puppies alive in a paper bag, in full view of their tethered mother. Mama dog broke free later and began frantically digging the ground and retrieving puppies, which luckily attracted the attention of a neighbor who phoned police.
Q5kd TIL Carrie Fisher described wearing the bikini in Return Of The Jedi as “It was like steel, not steel, but hard plastic, and if you stood behind me you could see straight to Florida. You’ll have to ask Boba Fett about that.”
grv18 TIL the first balloons were made out of animal bladders and “balloon animals” were made out of animal intestines