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AXEd TIL John Knoll, the visual fx supervisor of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, won an oscar for a Pirates of the Caribbean movie and also invented Photoshop.
d8wvQ TIL that Gerald Ford was born as Leslie King Jr. Soon after he was born, Leslie King Sr. drew a butchers knife on his wife and baby son, prompting her to move out, divorce him and remarry a paint salesman named Gerald Ford. They then decided to give the baby his name instead.
xonb TIL Nero (Emperor of Rome) liked, castrated and married a young boy that resembled his deceased second wife (which he may have murdered)
njV7 TIL that President McKinley was supposed to meet the inventor of the bullet proof vest to try the new invention but never made it because he was shot to death by a bullet that would have easily been stopped by the vest
P14nL TIL that Nick Mason, the drummer for Pink Floyd, competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race five times and completed it twice.