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TIL That Robin Williams actually had clauses written into his contracts for movies that a certain portion of the crew on set had to be composed of homeless people

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pY8L4 TIL Casey Kasem, famous radio host and original voice of Shaggy from "Scooby Doo! Where Are You!", wanted to be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Instead, his wife had him interred in an unmarked grave at Oslo Western Civil Cemetery in Oslo, Norway.
LNjd TIL King John of Bohemia (who was blind) died in battle (where his retainers would lead his horse into the thick of the fighting, where he would then flail his sword around) was reported to have said: “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
4GyN TIL between 2007 and 2012, drug wholesalers shipped 780 million oxycodone and hydrocodone doses to West Virginia, or 433 pills per person. During this time, 1,728 people in the state fatally overdosed on the painkillers.
0wALj TIL Napoleon III's Y-chromosome (which is inherited father to son) does not match other member's of the Bonaparte family implying his legal father was not his father and he was not a Bonaparte. There had been rumors during his lifetime that he was illegitimate due his mother's affairs.
nerBP TIL of Cliff Young, an Australian potato farmer who at age 61 entered the 1983 Sydney-Melbourne ultramarathon wearing work boots and overalls. He ran non-stop for five days and 15 hours, won by ten hours and donated all of his $10,000 winnings to the five other people who managed to finish the race