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TIL Whoopi Goldberg played the typically male lead role of Psuedolus in the 1997 revival of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

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oewW TIL That a Korean man during WWII was conscripted to fight for the Japanese, was caught by the Russians, forced to fight for the Russians, captured and forced to fight for the Germans, and finally captured by American troops at D-Day. He eventually moved and passed away in Illinois.
m1vBO TIL that famous musician David Bowie, born David Robert Jones, adopted his last name from James Bowie (1796-1836), soldier at the Texas Revolution and Battle of the Alamo and namesake of the Bowie knife.
OGedg TIL in 1967, a documentary filmmaker was shot and killed while filming a miner in Kentucky by the owner of the rented house where the miner lived. The killing was motivated by the growing resentment of journalists who descended upon Appalachia to document living conditions during the War on Poverty.
Ypb6B TIL There is a theorem inspired by the division into slices of a pizza, presented in 1967 and still under study today.
K9GQ TIL that in 2009, 3 Monarch caterpillars were sent into space and returned safely as butterflies in 2010.