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TIL Zero Mostel's final performance was as a demented Slavic gull warning traumatized rabbits of an incoming storm, Keehar in Watership Down

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Yp7QP TIL that the Nintendo character Kirby was named after John Kirby, the legal counsel for Nintendo who helped them win their lawsuit with Universal Studios in 1982. John Kirby was gifted a sailboat Christened the “Donkey Kong” and given exclusive rights to name any boat he owned “Donkey Kong.”
vPZA8 TIL In Japan, by law, a workday becomes an additional holiday, also known as a "citizen's holiday," if the workday falls between two holidays.
ekYJ TIL that when asked about his thoughts on Ben Affleck playing Batman, George Clooney responded by saying “I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part”
yVdPM TIL that a previous rough cut of the 1980 comedy movie Airplane! was 115 minutes. After it was previewed at three college campuses and two movie theaters, the filmmakers trimmed the movie down to 88 minutes due to audience feedback.
ErvP TIL that after 200 women in India attacked and killed a serial rapist, the five women who were originally arrested got released when every woman from their slum claimed responsibility.