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TIL that when Buddy Holly died, he had $193 cash on him. The Coroner kept $11.65 of it for his fee...

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YpJdr TIL Ian Fleming named his character "Goldfinger" after the stern architect Ernő Goldfinger, whom he despised. When Ernő filed a suit over the name, Fleming threatened to rename the character "Goldprick". Ernő dropped the suit in exchange for legal fees and six copies of the book.
ZZp TIL Andy and Red’s opening chat in the Shawshank Redemption, in which Red is throwing a baseball, took 9 hours to shoot. Morgan Freeman threw the ball all 9 hours and returned for work the next day with his arm in a sling.
X5QX TIL penguins were once introduced in Norway. One of them was promptly shot by a Norwegian matron who claimed it was a freak of nature that had invaded her yard.
VjKQ TIL in 1922 there was a three-day riot in New York City over whether men could wear straw hats after September 15
0oWA TIL that Coconuts are so important in the Cook Islands they ask about them in the census. For the record, each home eats ten coconuts per week… and feeds 75 to their animals.