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TIL After the killing of his father, Philip II, Alexander blamed Persia and overthrew the Persian Empire in response, but Aristotle and others claim Philip was assassinated by an angry ex-lover enraged that Philip didn’t avenge him after he was revenge-raped at the behest of another lover’s friend.

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LQPZd TIL the actor Walter Brennen served in France during WWI where he suffered an injury to his vocal chords from exposure to mustard gas which gave him his trademark voice
WkY9A TIL NBC rejected a scene of bodies being shown splayed open and hung from a ceiling on the show Hannibal because their butts were visible. Executive producer Bryan Fuller suggested “What if we filled the butt cracks with blood so we couldn’t see the cracks?”. NBC accepted to then show the scene.
4OZJ TIL Yakov Smirnoff, the man who created “In Soviet Russia” jokes is also a painter, and painted a 9/11 memorial mural titled “America’s Heart”. Each brush stroke represents one person that died on that day.
l7GZN TIL Tommy Cooper was a Welsh magician/comedian whose shtick was "a clumsy magician messes up his tricks". He had a massive heart attack, collapsed and died on stage during a live broadcast, in front of 12 million viewers, with studio audience laughing at what they thought was just one of his acts.
dZj7 TIL the odds of your father’s sperm meeting with your mother’s egg to create you is 1 in 4 quadrillion. The odds of you existing as yourself (traced back to your first ancestors) is 10^2,685.000.