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TIL Katie Holmes turned down returning as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight to star in a critically derided crime film with Queen Latifah

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neA87 TIL that the two longest living cats on record, Grandpa Rex Allen and Crème Puff, lived to ages 34 and 38, respectively. They were different breeds, completely unrelated, but both were owned by the same man, Jake Perry.
gMjyA TIL That The Twilight Zone was more than just a TV show. (First Post Here)
j7lQ TIL of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars. Her thesis supervisor took credit and was awarded a Nobel Prize.
AXlo TIL that, despite all stereotypes, Mississippi and West Virginia are the only two states that do not allow children whose parents refused to have them vaccinated due to religion in schools.
m1RGP TIL songwriter Jim Steinman won a court case preventing Meat Loaf from covering one of his songs after the singer claimed it was promised to him and was "furious" when it became a hit for Celine Dion. Meat Loaf would later say the power ballad "was about me and Jim Steinman"