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TIL Kira Roessler (bass player for punk band Black Flag) is an Emmy-winning dialogue/ADR editor (Game of Thrones, John Adams).

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R5NO9 TIL a monkey named Ramu was arrested in India for disrupting the peace between Muslim and Hindu communities. He was released 5 years later when wildlife activists learned of his situation.
VMdaZ TIL The first openly gay celebrity was actor Billy Haines. In the 1920s, Haines was a silent film star with films like The Midnight Express, Little Annie Rooney, and Navy Blues. Haines, who was under contract with MGM, was told to marry a woman by MGM. He refused and never acted again.
loXGA TIL there is a subgenre of erotic literature that involves sexual encounters between humans and dinosaurs. Works include titles such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay.
jNmN TIL when Emperor Hirohito broadcast his surrender order to the Japanese people on August 14, 1945, his subjects could not understand the obscure Royal dialect in which he spoke. An Army officer had to follow the Emperor’s statement with a translation.
wWbM TIL As part of grief counseling after her husband died, a woman decided to look for her infant that she had given up for adoption, only to find he had died 25 years before in the Lockerbie bombing.