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TIL actor Deep Roy played 165 different Oompa Loompas in Tim Burton's 2005 version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

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l76K TIL during a college football game in 1951, a white Oklahoma A&M player continually assaulted a black player from Drake named Johnny Bright. Bright was knocked unconscious 3 times and suffered a broken jaw, but still managed to throw a 61-yard touchdown pass before having to leave the game.
V0r4 TIL that human bites are one of the most dangerous animal bites in the world due to the bacteria in our mouths.
DVQr TIL Frank Zappa was so astounded by the success of “Bobby Brown”, especially in Scandinavia, that he wanted CBS to hire an anthropologist to study why the song became such a big hit.
1aA0V TIL While the US Dollar (Sacagawea and SBA) coins were considered failures in the continental US, in other countries that use the Dollar, the coins are more popular than $1 bills.
dym8 TIL J.R.R. Tolkien finished his own translation of Beowulf in 1926, but never published it. One of his sons edited and published it for him this year.