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TIL that Sister Act was originally intended as a vehicle for Bette Midler. When Whoopi Goldberg got the role, after Midler turned it down, the writer, Paul Rudnick, did not want to be associated with the film and was credited under a pseudonym.

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4kgOa TIL “Bésame Mucho” (“Kiss Me a Lot”) was written in 1941 by Consuelo Velasquez, who was about 15 years old at the time, in bolero style. Inspired by the Nightingale Aria from the opera “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, she said that she had never been kissed when she wrote the song.
XyDk TIL 500g of polar bear liver contains 9 million international units of Vitamin A and would kill you if eaten
e0LP5 TIL in 1963 the US Atomic Energy Commission considered the possibility of excavating an alternate rout to the Suez Canal by blasting a path across Israel using 520 two-megaton nuclear bombs. Intended to be sea level with no locks, the greatest depth of excavation required would 1500 feet.
6gOY TIL that identical twin brothers had sex with the same women on the same day that resulted in a child. Paternity tests showed each male was both the father and the uncle of the child thus the identify of the true father is unknown.
wLol6 TIL that when the Queen of England dies, Operation London Bridge will commence. It is an originally secret protocol meant to handle the news and organize the country's 12-day mourn. Several news channel rehearse this even every year, replacing her name with "Mrs. Robinson".