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TIL that Russia is bigger than former planet Pluto

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j6pya TIL the tension between Marlon Brando & director Frank Oz while filming The Score escalated to such a point that Brando refused to be on set if Oz was there. So co-star Robert De Niro ended up directing Brando with Oz stationed at a distance while he privately passed directorial messages to De Niro.
1aknd TIL Buddy Holly's pregnant wife María Elena learned about his tragic death from a news report and suffered a miscarriage shortly after due to the psychological trauma.
W7dDo TIL that a Lousiana term for a kind of fish called a crappie is "sacalait", coming from a French term literally meaning "bag of milk". This isn't because crappies have anything to do with milk, but because the Choctaw word "sakli" got turned into "sac-à-lait" in Cajun French.
4A7o TIL there is no such thing as a 24 hour flu, you have been the lucky recipient of food poisoning.
LQo4r TIL that Warren Buffett's (6th richest person in the world) son thought that his dad's job was checking security alarm systems; as a kid, had no idea what his dad did for a living and no clue that his dad was really, really rich