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TIL Bret Harts very first WWF championship was won at a house show over Ric Flair

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5Vw8k TIL numerous requests to license Rollerball (1975) into a real game angered the director, Norman Jewison, who said the movie's point was to show the "sickness and insanity of contact sports and their allure".
9aM6 TIL that Lord of the Rings actor Ian McKellen turned down an offer of 1.5 million dollar to officiate a wedding dressed as Gandalf, saying “I am sorry, Gandalf doesn’t do weddings.”
awnM0 TIL the largest art heist in history was completed in 1990 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, totaling 13 paintings worth $500M. To this day, all of the empty frames are still hanging, acting as placeholders until the pieces are returned.
9w4km TIL that the voice of Woody Woodpecker was done by his Creator's wife. She had to do so by submitting an anonymous audition tape after Walter Lantz rejected the idea that a woman could voice the male character.
NpKN TIL An elephant’s digestive system produces enough methane gas each day to propel an automobile twenty miles.