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TIL MAD Magazine credited Leonardo da Vinci for creative input in one of their issues. His check is still waiting in the MAD offices for him to pick it up

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kOrrE TIL The last adult head of state during WW2, King Michael of Romania, died under a year ago. He met Hitler multiple times and is credited of shorting WW2 by about 6 months by ousting its fascist dictator in 1944.
VEop TIL that Mandy Patinkin (aka Inigo Montoya) sustained only one injury on the set of The Princess Bride: a bruised rib, from laughing too hard at Billy Crystal.
9YdeB TIL that in 1997 Guillermo del Toro's father was kidnapped for ransom and his friend James Cameron withdrew $1 million in cash from his bank account and paid it.
VM86B TIL Liquid breathing (as seen in The Abyss) is an actual thing that exists and is done in various forms. All be it a bit more complex.
woOlo TIL the centrepiece sequence of "Singin' in the Rain" was culled from a similar sequence (sans-dancing) in Buster Keaton's "The Cameraman".