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TIL after suffering a brutal attack in 2020, Wanda Palmer woke up from a two-year coma in 2022 and identified her brother, Daniel, as the one who attacked and nearly killed her. He was charged with attempted murder, but died in a hospital after being in jail for five days.

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nWn8B TIL To get a convincing performance out of the boy that played the kidnapped child in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg&Co. wore gorilla and clown costumes off-camera to surprise him, and slowly opened presents to get his wide-eyed amazed reaction to seeing aliens in his kitchen.
veEj TIL Thor’s hammer was intended to have a much longer handle and be wielded two-handed. While it was being forged, Loki interrupted the dwarf manning the bellows, resulting in the hammer’s defect.
mxE6P TIL An 8 months Pregnant Mary Turner protested the lynching of her innocent husband Hayes Turner by a White mob in 1918 and threatened to have them arrested. In order to “teach her a lesson”, she and her unborn child were brutally murdered. No one was charged.
J46Q TIL that after Elon Musk’s wife told him “I am your wife, not your employee” due to him not treating her as an equal, he told her that “if you were my employee, I would fire you”
ZpJdG TIL that Hermione Baddeley's role in the film "Room at the Top" scored her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She only appears in the film for 2 minutes and 19 seconds. Making it the shortest performance to be nominated for an Oscar.