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xQrD TIL George Washington’s best spy, code named ‘Culper Jr.’, was only identified as Robert Townsend nearly 150 years after the war because a Long Island historian named Morton Pennypacker recognized his handwriting from some business receipts and matched it to intelligence correspondence.
awxLy TIL when Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Mary Poppins, she thanked Jack Warner, the producer of the competing movie, My Fair Lady. Andrews had starred in My Fair Lady on Broadway but Warner refused to cast her in the movie, leaving Andrews open to play Mary Poppins.
pY76b TIL a woman can become pregnant with a cancer rather than an embryo.
Njr1 TIL Admiral Ackbar from “Return of the Jedi” was not a man in a suit, but a giant puppet.
REr4 TIL: The Bali public holiday “Day of Silence” (Nyepi) requires all tourists to be imprisoned in their hotels for 24 hours. No one is allowed on the streets, and could be arrested by Traditional Police. All businesses including the airport, ATMs, and TV broadcasts are shut down.