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TIL that during the filming of Caligula, in Rome, Malcolm McDowell took the entire production crew out to dinner to celebrate an English football win against Italy. At the end of the lavish meal, he claimed to not have enough money, and stuck the film’s choreographer with the bill.

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wLV51 TIL about the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, a detailed annual record which a king was never allowed to read, to maintain its impartiality. One time, a king told others to keep his falling off a horse secret from the scribe. His request was recorded.
x9JD TIL Heath Ledger was an avid chess player; he won Western Australia’s junior chess championship at age 10 and as an adult he would play against other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park.
gNQb TIL elephants are afraid of bees!
Bry0D TIL a hypnic jerk is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person (not only me apparently) is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment
OpnR TIL 45 Million people were accidentally starved to death in China due to a pest control program that backfired in 1958. The program eliminated sparrows, which caused bug populations to explode and destroy crops.