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TIL Shelley Duvall was nominated for worst actress at the Razzie Awards 1981 for her role in The Shining

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XEDvP TIL of the Leatherman, a vagabond who walked an annual 365 mile circuit in Connecticut and New York for over 30 years; he wore handmade leather clothes, slept in caves, and communicated with gestures in broken English, though he was fluent in French. His background, name, and origin are all unknown.
4195 TIL that surgeon Robert J. White transplanted the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes and lived for nine days.
XEMvE TIL “Eye Of The Tiger” was created to be the theme for Rocky III because Queen wouldn’t give Sylvester Stallone the rights to use “Another One Bites The Dust”
mYop TIL an “easy to learn, politically neutral” language called Esperanto was created in hopes that it’d bring nations together. There are about 20,000 fluent speakers ranging from Europe to Asia.
Je4v TIL that Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times every day and his owners charge a $200,000 fee per impregnation, generating about $30,000,000 a year annually.