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TIL that before his death, Phil Hartman had expressed an interest in making a live action film about his popular Simpsons character Troy McClure. Many of The Simpsons production staff expressed enthusiasm for the project and offered to help.

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1mw7 TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges
4RjR TIL Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was held for extensive questioning after his name came up on an alert for the No Fly List. He was found to be a false positive and was flying into the United States to promote his film “My Name is Khan,” which concerns racial profiling of Muslims in the U.S.
KOAk9 TIL American beer is generally bland because 19th-century brewers were trying to convince Prohibition supporters that beer was a healthier and cleaner drink than whiskey and other liquors
LdNZ TIL that on 18 May 1990, Jim Swire, who’s daughter died in the Lockerbie bombing, took a fake bomb on board a British Airways from London Heathrow to New York JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved.
ANg9d TIL A Portugese Man of War is not a jellyfish; it’s a colony of thousands of individual animals called “zooids”