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TIL More Than Half Of American Adults Still Have Their Childhood Stuffed Animal

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ne7Rr TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch was kidnapped at gunpoint in South Africa. He talked his way out of being killed and said "It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary”
Z8Lwv TIL that Philip of Macedon threatened to enslave and destroy the population and city of Sparta if he won the war. The Spartans replied to him with a single word: "If".
bbE4 TIL that In 1994, Michael Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at No. 1 in US television (ER), film (Jurassic Park), and book sales (Disclosure).
egE TIL The Ghostbusters went up against C'thulu and the Necronomicon.
6ERdw TIL of Carrie Nation, a radical member of the temperance movement, who would attack bars and saloons with a hatchet before prohibition came into effect.