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TIL Eddie Murphy passed on Ghostbusters, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Malcolm X, Rush Hour and Inglourious Basterds.

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epP0L TIL Laverne's & Shirley's "schlemiel and schlimazel" are real words with real meanings
4X6W5 TIL: Donkey Kong not developed by Nintendo but rather a subcontracting company that also made Sega's Congo Bongo and Zaxxon. They successfully sued after Nintendo use their source code to create Donkey Kong Jr. without them.
pYyw4 TIL in 1862 John Langdon Down was the first to describe a distinct mental disability, calling it "Mongolism" due to his perception that children with it shared facial similarities. Now called Down Syndrome, was discovered in the 1950s to be caused by the presence a third copy of chromosome 21.
xVlMb TIL after Montreal Canadiens fans booed the US national anthem during the 2004 Hockey Playoffs, Boston Bruins fans responded by giving the Canadian National Anthem a standing ovation.
x695k TIL about the loneliest whale in the world. Dubbed "The 52-hertz whale", it appears to be the only individual emitting a whale call at this frequency in the whole world. The whale itself has never been sighted.