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TIL that Mrs Brown from the sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys was originally going to be played by an actress but she never showed up so the creator, Brendon O'Carroll, stepped in to take over the role.

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E1RYx TIL the Herman Behr Mansion, now seen as one of the greatest, if not the greatest Romanesque Revival house in New York, was used as a brothel in the 1950s.
BrEpk TIL Russel Crowe wanted to make a sequel of 'Gladiator'. The script of the sequel had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians; then transported to other periods in history, like World War 2, Vietnam War and finally a general in the modern-day Pentagon.
9O1M TIL there is a US company, producing renewable oils on industrial scale, by fermenting algae.
R50d8 TIL that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases) have the highest mortality rate of any disease that is not inherited: 100%
9XXp TIL in 1986, the United States suspended New Zealand from the ANZUS treaty after New Zealand declared a section of their waters a nuclear free zone