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TIL Clancy Brown (Captain Hadley in the The Shawshank Redemption, The Kurgan in Highlander, and Brother Justin in Carnivàle) is the voice of Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants.

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J1LVj TIL that a popular Halloween song, "Thriller," was written by an Englishman named Rod Temperton. He wrote a number of top hits for other recording artists, won a Grammy award and was nominated for an Oscar. His nickname was "The Invisible Man" because he chose to stay out of the limelight.
WkMXN TIL a Japanese sushi chain CEO majorly contributed to a drop in piracy off the Somalian coast by providing the pirates with training as tuna fishermen
P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
XEalR TIL: Rabbits, and other animals such as deer, have big white tails to confuse predators. A sharp turn will hide the "bullseye", confusing the pursuer.