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TIL Robin Williams improv was so good in FernGully the director tripled his character’s screen time for the final cut.

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M7A8K TIL: In the 1950s, the Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India and15 left in Iran, however, this year after efforts by conservationists, they brought them back with Dr Marker proclaiming, "If we can save the cheetah, we can change the world" "Or we have to change the world to save the cheetah"
96mX TIL Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner eat dinner every night at Carl’s house off of TV stands while watching movies together
AN894 TIL For natural gas appliances the reason you need to hold the pilot button for so long is to heat a thermocouple, which naturally causes a small electrical charge, which activates a magnet that opens the valve letting gas flow. Without this process gas would just keep flowing out.
VBn1B TIL Carrie Fisher’s ashes were placed inside a giant Prozac Pill
grbn4 TIL that before a planned invasion of Asia Minor, the Spartan king Agesilaus II attempted a sacrifice at Aulis, similar to that made by Agamemnon to start the Trojan War. However, he did not tell the local Boeotians about this, so they stopped the sacrifice and spirited away the intended victim.