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TIL Mr. Bean voiced Zazu in lion king.

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OoL6e TIL artist Tracey Emin exhibited 'My Bed'. The stained bed she was in for 4 days during a bout of depression. Two other artists did "Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed"
8GbG TIL that after a nuclear disaster in Japan in 1999, the operating company declined government funds and paid compensation itself based not on a legal liability but rather its moral responsibility.”
1nNV TIL: There is 2 islands on a river in Liberia where Chimps that have been used for medical research are sent, instead of being put to death. Basically, it’s the real life version of Planet of the Apes.
R55N9 TIL that the billionaire Jon Jiang produced Empires of the Deep, a $130-million fantasy film with his girlfriend as a main character. The movie had a chaotic production involving 5 successive directors and 10 writers, was completed in 2010 but failed to find distribution, and remains unreleased.
xVWM7 TIL In April 1918, Winston Churchill nominated Theodore Roosevelt to be the Allies plenipotentiary to Moscow. The plan was for Roosevelt to make a deal where Lenin reentered the war and the Allies would "safeguard the permanent fruits of the Revolution"