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TIL Since Camera Phones have been adopted, UFO sightings have plummeted

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kPW1 TIL that Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz were both retired from The Simpsons after their voice actor, Phil Hartman, was murdered. Philip J. Fry was named in his honour and, before his death, the character Zapp Branigan had been written specifically for him.
Ooa6X TIL After the filming of Rush Hour 2, the prop money was so accurate that movie extras tried to pass it off as real on the Strip. The Secret Service then had to confiscate $100 Million worth of prop money and accused the prop money manufacturer - Independent Studio Services - of counterfeiting.
R5wG8 Today I learned that most of the famous silver drachma coins of Alexander the Great were made out of captured Persian silver
b9Wnj TIL that the name of the company LEGO comes from the Danish phrase "leg godt", which means "play well". Interestingly, the Latin word "lego" means "I put together", but this is just a coincidence - when LEGO first started, it only made wooden toys.
nWlNY TIL that no babies are born with freckles because they haven't been in the sun long enough for specks to develop.