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TIL that Robin Williams was persuaded to star in Aladdin, after animators showed him several test sequences of the Genie performing his stand-up routines. He was impressed by one sequence in particular; of the Genie growing another head to argue with himself.

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0B8L TIL the German Reichstag/parliament in 1933 voted to give Hitler absolute control. 1 person spoke against it:Social Democratic leader Otto Wels, who spoke the last free words in the Reichstag:“You can take our lives & our freedom, but you cannot take our honor. We are defenseless but not honorless.”
wP1M TIL 25 scientists who worked on the Star Wars defense program died in a short span of time under mysterious circumstances.
8aNYV TIL that King Charlemagne kept his daughters at home with him and refused to allow them to get sacramentally married. However, he accepted their extramarital relationships. He rewarded their common law husbands and treasured his illegitimate grandchildren.
ADmVo TIL that Russian scientists managed to grow 32,000-year-old plants from seeds they found encased in ice in Siberia
P1P0L TIL about a man eating tiger that killed 436 people in Nepal in the final years of the 19th century.