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TIL that once during a party at his mansion in New Orleans, Nick Cage revealed his two-headed snake, Harvey, after Harvey Dent. Among the crowd in attendance was Werner Herzog who insisted the snake be in his next film. Cage replied “No, I’m not putting it into the movie because this is personal.”

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xVkow TIL According to Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus, the Greek King of Ithaca, had a dog named Argos. When Odysseus left for the war on Troy, Argos waited for 20 years for him to return, and died as soon as he saw his master had come back safe and sound.
LrBP TIL that the Bond character Pussy Galore was based on real life spy, Romanian born Pussy Deakin. Her husband was one of the last British heroes of WWII, and was knighted in 1975. She would have been called Lady ‘Pussy’ Deakin.
aYZo TIL that a 14 year old boy broke into Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace while disguised as a chimney sweep then ran off with her underwear.
RGQ8 TIL shortly before she died, Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds, allowing her voice to be used in future products outside of Star Trek and, quite possibly, as the computer voice in Star Trek: Discovery. Thus, she could live on as the voice of Starfleet possibly for all time.
NP18 TIL Every year tourists throw approximately 1.1 million Euro into the Trevi Fountain in Rome.