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TIL after Warner Bros. execs suggested adding a third character to "Pinky And The Brain," writers responded to the unwanted input with the episode "Pinky & The Brain And...Larry" which featured a third, superfluous mouse named Larry that added nothing to the plot but repeatedly saying "I'm Larry"

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Kp76 TIL the Illiad does not describe the sack of Troy nor the building of the Trojan Horse. Achilles is not killed by an arrow in his heel and the story ends with Hector’s funeral.
Mmr8 TIL Sergeant Tommy Prince of the 1st Special Service Brigade (aka “The Devil’s Brigade”) would sneak into SS Officers’ quarters and kill every third officer while they slept in their beds, and leave the others alive so they could find them dead in the morning.
E1L0P TIL that Marius, a giraffe bred at Copenhagen Zoo was euthanized and publicly dissected at 2 years of age because they didn't want to breed him. He was then fed to lions. This was in spite of other Zoos offering to give Marius a permanent home.
0dZRL TIL that Lucile Randon, or sister André, a French nun, is the oldest living person. She is 118 years old
XjAX TIL that Switzerland has enough fallout shelters to cover 114% of its population, including the largest fallout shelter in the world, the Sonnenberg Tunnel, designed to house 20 000 civilians, though reassessed for 10 000 to 17 000