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TIL Hugo Weaving said of voicing Megatron in Transformers, “I had no knowledge of it. I didn’t care about it. I didn’t think about it. It was meaningless to me. I never read the script. I just have my lines, and I don’t know what they mean.”

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5YPe9 TIL there has never been an only-child US President. Every president has had atleast one sibling.
wLo6 TIL Julius Caesar wrote fan fiction of Hercules and Oedipus in his youth.
gMXBL TIL that during WWI in Germany, horses were considered army reservists; owners had to register them regularly, and the army kept detailed records on the locations of all horses. In the first weeks of the war, the German army mobilized 715,000 horses.
bNV4 TIL William Shakespeare died within a month of signing his will, which begins by claiming himself to be in perfect health. No contemporary source explains how or why he died, though half a century later it was claimed he died of fever after “drinking too hard.”
rbnw TIL: In ancient Greece throwing an apple at a woman was considered a marriage proposal. If the woman catches the apple it was considered that she accepted the proposal.