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TIL that "Aladdin" was rejected as an entry for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, due to the sheer amount of dialogue Robin Williams improvised.

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OoVOX TIL that Osama Bin Laden had the "Charlie Bit My Finger" video in his computer's audio/visual collection
LkyZp TIL: The Beggar's Opera written in 1728 was accused of being a "base form of entertainment". Similar to the way we blame videogames today; the opera was blamed for increasing crime rates and violence, due to the fact that its main characters were prisoners.
eBGb TIL when Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what it’s like to stand on the moon, he said: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
6goJ TIL that “headless photographs” were a fad in the late 1800s.
7rnXp TIL of Federal Express Flight 705. In April 1994, a disgruntled, suicidal employee tried to hijack and down the plane, brutally attacking the crew with a hammer. The wounded captain put the DC-10 in a dive and rolled it to incapacitate the attacker before landing successfully.