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TIL the founder of the Hells Angels was cast in FX’s hit series Sons of Anarchy and was a technical advisor for the show.

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P17Je TIL of puppeteer Ronald Brown, from Christian children's television programme, Joy Junction. He would later be arrested for planning to kidnap and eat a child.
gW0D TIL the actor who played Roger Rabbit in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, when performing his lines on-set alongside the other voice actors, insisted on doing so in a custom-tailored rabbit costume.
Dj8j TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. The mysterious unsolved death of 9 hikers who tore through their tents naked in sub-0 temperatures. 7 died of hypothermia, one of a fractured skull, one female team member had her tongue and eyes missing. Offical cause of death: “unknown compelling force”
YpbvB TIL on his deathbed, Walt Disney scrawled his final words on a piece of paper: "Kurt Russell"
eQME TIL that in 1859, an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. In the ensuing confrontation, 461 Americans and 14 artillery faced 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig