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TIL Robert Englund, AKA Freddie Kruger, recommended to Mark Hamill that he audition for the role of Luke Skywalker

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nedj7 TIL Drag Kings have been around since 1867 where they perform as celebrities or with the names Landon Cider, Spikey Van Dykey, Gene Jeanie, Maxxx Pleasure etc
Br77e TIL One of the oldest children’s lullabies was found on an ancient Babylonian tablet, believed to be from around 2,000BC. Rather than being soothing, it instead has a menacing tone. In it, a baby being is threatened with punishment for disturbing the family god with its crying.
mxK1p TIL: Bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima was the less deadly of the 2 options America considered to end the war: Alt was to invade Japan, costing millions of both American and Japanese lives, instead of over 200k Japanese lives lose from the bombs.
xKaw TIL Ants can count.
W7Xnd TIL Max Planck opposed the atomic theory until the 1890s