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TIL Elijah Wood voiced Spyro in The Legend of Spyro game series

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xVrZ7 TIL of the Maniots, who claim descent from the ancient Spartans. They live on a small mountainous peninsula and despite being almost always outnumbered, they never succumbed to the Ottoman invasions. They would later go on to play a pivotal role in liberating Greece from the Ottoman rule.
kO4j7 TIL Marvin Gaye’s real last name was “Gay”. His father was a crossdresser, making Marvin a target of bullying. It was because of this, added with rumors of Marvin's own homosexuality, that Marvin added an "e" to his last name when he became famous.
BrXdd TIL an 86-year-old wrote an upbeat review for her local paper about a new Olive Garden. She was mercilessly mocked by the Internet. Anthony Bourdain thought she had a valuable POV on small town dining. So he published a book of her reviews.
N7a71 TIL Fortunate turns of weather saved the Japanese town of Kokura from the atomic bomb, twice.
QNk06 TIL that the son of the victim of Indian actor Salman Khan's drunk hit-and-run has stated that he still watches his movies.