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TIL: The Wiggles have a rich history, including starting as “Cockroaches”, aspirations for head Wiggle, and the love, and divorce, and continued co-Wiggling of two current cast members

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wLdXE TIL being typecast as a cowboy, Sam Elliot hoped for a different role when he received The Big Lebowski script. The role turned out to be a cowboy and the Cohen brothers actually wrote in the script that this cowboy 'sounding not unlike Sam Elliott' and 'looking not unlike Sam Elliot'.
4XgX6 TIL that as a white belt, Paul Walker told his BJJ coach that he would get his black belt "even if he needed to get it in his coffin", shortly after Walker's death, that same coach awarded Walker his black belt and told his father he could put it in his coffin.
jkgp TIL that The Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp acts like the medic of any saltwater aquarium. Many fish value its services so highly that they even allow the Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp to clean inside of their mouths without harming the shrimp.
vPPMB TIL about David Cox, a former US Marine whose court martial was the inspiration for the play and film A Few Good Men, and whose murder in 1994 remains unsolved
xWWk TIL the family of the late Paul Newman was forced off the board of the Newman’s Own charitable food company by Robert Forrester, who has since raised his own salary as CEO by 50%