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TIL a paediatrician was forced to flee her home by vigilantes who confused her job title with “paedophile”

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4JrX TIL that for staring in the 1988 comedy film Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito both agreed to take 20% of the film’s box office take instead of their usual salaries. This resulted in them receiving the biggest paychecks of their movie careers.
69LKl TIL about Walter Tetley, the voice actor who portrayed Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve in the 1940s-50s and Sherman on Rocky & Bullwinkle in the 1960s. It was rumored that his mother had had him 'fixed' before his voice changed
woYdP TIL about Ralph C Smith, the US' last surviving WWII General, who passed away in 1998 aged 104. Not only was he the 13th person to receive a pilot's license, he was also instructed by Orville Wright.
R7Ln4 TIL that on December the 27th 1973, the IRA kidnapped and murdered the West German consul to Northern Ireland Thomas Niedermayer. His wife, two daughters and son-in-law subsequently committed suicide
1aEQd TIL that Weird Al Yankovic turned The Offspring's hit "Come Out and Play" into an ode about doing laundry called "Laundry Day" (you gotta keep 'em separated), but the parody song was never officially recorded.