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TIL that Patton Oswalt once stood absolutely motionless during an entire 3 minute opening scene on the sitcom "King of Queens," and no one noticed it until years later.

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ZJDB TIL when child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18, he found out that all his money ($68 million) had been spent by his mother who argued that that every dollar a child makes before the age of 21 belongs to his parents. Coogan’s law was then passed to protect child actors.
pYZpN TIL a colony of wild chicken have been living under the Hollywood Freeway for over 50 years
VMZm TIL that ‘Family Protection Bill’ in Iran “gives men the right to take a second wife without the permission of the first, and it would enshrine a man’s right to have an unlimited number of temporary marriages, which can last from 10 minutes to 99 years.”
X0anR TIL that Leonardo da Vinci’s private life has sparked centuries of speculation about his sexuality, with Sigmund Freud analyzing his desires in Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood and Walter Isaacson suggesting he had homosexual relationships with male pupils.
e0QND TIL: Disney's ''The Shadow King'' (2011) remains unreleased and half complete despite $50 million dollars spent on it's production by a team of animators, model-makers and puppeteers and Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Sellick. Disney said it was 'Too dark and unsettling to make toys of'