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TIL that the director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogies, Sir Peter Jackson would like to direct an episode of Doctor Who, and he wants a Dalek in payment.

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69gYm TIL in an actual case of dying of laughter, 56-year-old Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen laughed himself to death watching A Fish Called Wanda
7rNlb TIL that 9/11 was a "Super Tuesday" of music releases - including hugely anticipated albums by Jay-Z, Bob Dylan, Nickelback, Ben Folds, Mariah Carey and many more, and TWO album covers that depicted WTC being on fire
kN6E TIL that the French military actually has the best military record in Europe having won 132 of the 185 battles they fought in the last 800 years
6Ex7J TIL that the reason why It Wasn't Me by Shaggy got famous is because a DJ in Hawaii pirated it off of Napster and played it live on air. The song was not supposed to be on the album.
6VrW TIL Bill Clinton’s cat has his own unreleased SNES game, in which he fights caricatures of Republican leaders to warn the White House of a stolen nuclear missile.