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TIL: “Shrek” means ‘fright’ in Yiddish

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7R8X TIL Bill Murray hired an assistant who ‘was profoundly deaf and spoke only in sign language’ to make communication as difficult as possible between him, the director and the studio during the filming of 'Groundhog Day’
gRy7 TIL That when Napoleon was asked whether he wanted to be God, He thought it over and replied, ‘No, it’s a dead-end job.’
04BM TIL popular 80s artist Patrick Nagel who did the cover art for Duran Duran’s Rio, died at age 38 of a heart attack after participating in a 15 minute celebrity “aerobathon” to benefit the American Heart Association.
BwKr TIL while in the military Mr. T was ordered to cut down trees as a punishment by a sergeant. He cut down 70 trees in 3 ½ hours before a shocked major superseded the sergeant and ordered him to stop.
X0Xrr TIL that the real name of the actor we all know as Boris Karloff - famous for playing Frankenstein's monster (his 82nd role by the way!) - was William Henry Pratt, and he elected to act under a pseudonym so as not to embarass his well known, well connected and almost aristocratic English family.