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TIL that scientists and historians believe that the same sailors whose story inspired Melville’s Moby Dick also may have caused the extinction of the Floreana Tortoise and the Floreana Mockingbird, species that inhabited Charles Island in the Galapagos.

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ne697 TIL that in the 1940s, actress Joan Hickson appeared in an Agatha Christie play, following which the author sent her a note reading “I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple. 41 years later, Hickson was cast as Miss Marple in a BBC series of Marple adaptations.
awDrM TIL a Lenin statue in Ukraine was turned into Darth Vader because of decommunization laws.
NmBM TIL While the “Shining” was playing in New York and Los Angeles, Stanley Kubrick ordered projectionists to cut the original final scene from the film by hand, and mail the deleted film strips back to Warner Bros. The original ending has never been released since.
pROG TIL that instead of celebrating April Fools, the French celebrate April Fish (Poisson d'Avril) where they sneak up behind people and tape paper fish to their backs.
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