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TIL Alan Rickman was originally offered to voice Lord Farquaad in Shrek but he turned it down to play Severus Snape

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XEZJD TIL Chinese pianist Lang Lang learned to love classical music from a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon. He was just two-and-a-half years old, and was absorbed by the piece, Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody Number II, that both Tom and Jerry played on the piano
K9WB TIL Frederick W. Smith, the founder of Fedex, saved the company by gambling the last $5000 they had on blackjack. He won $27,000 and was able to cover the company’s $24,000 fuel bill.
OoAZR TIL Australian prime minister, Harold Holt, who went missing while swimming at the beach, had a pool named in his honour. The locals call it ‘Dead Harry's’.
nJRP TIL Gandhi was obsessed with poop and enemas. He addressed his live-in maids everyday with the sentence “Have you had a good bowel movement this morning, sisters?”
W7dgA TIL before his comedy career, Chevy Chase was a drummer in the college band The Leather Canary, a group with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who would later go on to form Steely Dan.