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TIL Jim Parsons thought "The Big Bang Theory" was a game show before auditioning for it. He confused Chuck Lorre with Chuck Woolery, who was the original host of Wheel of Fortune.

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gM1mb TIL Stan Lee, co-creator of Daredevil, worried that blind people would be offended at how far he exaggerated the way a blind person's other senses are enhanced, until he started receiving letters telling him that blind people greatly enjoyed having Daredevil comics read to them.
Dmdp TIL that while intoxicated at a meeting, Ozzy Osbourne performed a Nazi goose step on a table, he then proceeded to dip his testicles in and then urinate in the executives wine.
e0nv6 TIL Mussolini drastically altered the area surrounding the Colosseum, leveling hills and removing ruins, including the base of the Colossus of Nero.
e0eJk TIL: In 1975 a 50 year old bricklayer died laughing whilst watching an episode of the TV show, The Goodies. His widow wrote to the cast of the show to thank them for making her husband's final moments so pleasant.
DPAD TIL an unusual aerial luminous phenomenon may appear in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions. The shape of the light are reported to be similar to auroras and usually are seen during or moments after an earthquake.