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TIL Neil Gaiman wrote the script for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's classic film Princess Mononoke

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m1RpP TIL Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run a marathon, specifically, the Boston Marathon and they tried to stop her from running it.
gMjMX TIL Jonny Lee Miller (Sickboy in "Trainspotting") is the grandson of Bernard Lee, who played M in the first James Bond films.
vPXD7 TIL that there are approximately 39,000 airplanes in the world right now. There have been approximately 150,000 airplanes throughout human history.
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