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TIL cousin Fuller in "Home Alone" is played by Macaulay Culkin's real life brother Kieran Culkin.

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bgga TIL an orangutan would break out of his zoo enclosure on nice days. He did it by maneuvering through obstacles and using a key he made out of wire. Between escapes, he hid the key in his mouth.
ADWDg TIL Mountains of Kong, a non-existent mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to the late 1880s
JkGV TIL a study found that writers are 121% more likely than the general population to suffer from bipolar disorder, and 50% more likely to commit suicide.
57pn TIL in 1963, JFK suggested cancelling Apollo in favor of a joint US-Soviet mission to the moon.
GY711 TIL the first Troll doll was created by a danish fisherman who could not afford giving his daughter a christmas gift. When the other children saw it they all wanted one as well.