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TIL after TJ Miller got accused of sexual misconduct and called in a fake bomb threat, Dreamworks hired an impersonator to dub over his lines in How To Train Your Dragon 3 to match his performance exactly (it had already been animated) in order to not change the film but still dissociate him from it

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xVG57 TIL much of Vivaldi’s music was originally performed by an all-female orchestra at the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage and music school for girls in Venice.
WPaB TIL of Joe Angelo who saved George S. Patton’s life in WW1, went broke during the Depression, joined the Bonus Army Protests of 1932 where he encountered Patton commanding troops to quell the protests. He approached Patton to sway him, Patton pretended to not know who he was and had him removed.
L7vr TIL In 1904 a woman borrowed $5 million dollars from US Banks because people thought she was Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate child. She wasn’t.
Br1vD TIL the reason that Cersei and Bronn never appear in the same scene in “Game of Thrones” is that the actors used to date, had a terrible breakup, and now have stipulations in their contracts that they can’t be made to act in the same scene together.
djm9 TIL that Eugene V. Debs conducted his last campaign for president as a prisoner in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary while serving ten years for his opposition to World War I. He received nearly a million votes.