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TIL Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire, that director Chris Columbus was able to make a PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 cut of the film.

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4keEb TIL that Efren Reyes decided to use an alias in 1985 to throw off players from avoiding him. Instead of going by his real name, he used the name of his best friend, Cesar Morales, and surprised players at the Red's Open 9-Ball Tournament in Houston, Texas.
R55b1 TIL New Zealand kea birds can be taught to use touchscreens with their tongues.
M7y1b TIL that pet cats are becoming less friendly and "domesticated" over time, caused by neutering programs that ensure only the most fearful and human-avoidant cats escape neutering and pass on their genes.
GAQm7 TIL about Raya and Sakina two Egyptian sisters who were serial killers and first women to be executed in modern Egypt, they were involved in murder of 17 women
9Y9MX TIL the movie (and song) “9 to 5” was inspired by an actual women’s labor movement called 9 to 5 that started in Boston in the 1970s