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TIL Fred Willard's biggest regret is turning down the role of Ted Striker on Airplane.

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epRp6 TIL in 2016, a Saudi princess was enraged after a plumber took photos of her bathroom. She made her bodyguard beat him up and then forced him to kiss her feet. She left France—this happened in her luxury apartment in Paris—and was tried in absentia. She received a 10-month suspended sentence.
e0wd4 TIL James Watt needed to convince skeptics to ditch their draft horses&buy his steam engine. To prove its superiority, he measured a horse walking in ­circles to turn a grindstone in a mill. He multiplied distance it walked by its ­~180 pounds of pulling force&came up with a new measure: horsepower
yQyre TIL that after Robin Williams' death, Disney wanted to make a new Aladdin movie featuring Williams' unused Genie outtakes from the previous films. However, this was forbidden by a special clause in Williams' will, leading to Disney scrapping their plans.
Br5wb TIL Escape (The Piña Colada Song) was the final US number one song of the 1970s
p8ZMA TIL that German is an official language of Belgium despite being spoken natively by less than 1% of the population