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TIL Billy Idol got his stage name from a chemistry teacher who described him as "idle" on a school report card. He originally wanted to be called "Billy Idle" but thought it would sound too similar to Monty Python's Eric Idle.

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gMleb TIL in the 1988 box-office bomb "Mac and Me", the wheelchair-bound lead child character was played by a real wheelchair-bound actor with spina bifida. In real life, when people asked why he was in a wheelchair, the 12-year-old would reply, "Vietnam."
B81W TIL that Brian Jacques wrote the Redwall series for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where as a truck driver, he delivered milk. This is the reason for his very descriptive writing style.
RnQl TIL The first art left outside of Earth includes a crudely drawn penis made by Andy Warhol.
yBgX TIL that the Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that the Anti-Christ will be the Pope, and the Catholic Church will cause the apocalypse.
6ERPY TIL Ian Fleming took the name for his James Bond character from an ornithologist James Bond. He explained to the real Bond's wife he needed unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name. The real Bond did not learn of the identity theft until the early 1960s when the 007 books became popular.