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TIL robin williams did over the phone stand up to Spielberg to cheer him up while he was making schlinders list

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X0a76 TIL about Carcinisation, a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans tend to evolve a crab-like body morphology. It has been described as "the many attempts of nature to evolve a crab"
YaDr TIL 6-year-old Ryan Gosling, inspired by the movie “First Blood,” once took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess
9YnNr TIL that Cyrillic (the alphabet used to write Russian) wasn't created by Greek monks Cyrill and Methodius. They created the Glagolitic script. A disciple of theirs created Cyrillic with a few Glagolitic letters.
4NYb TIL the reason behind the name of the 1918 Spanish Flu: In the warring US, France, Germany, and Britain, censors suppressed word of the plague to maintain morale. But in neutral Spain, papers were allowed to report on it, giving the impression Spain was especially hard hit.
kkpE TIL Drogba pleaded with combantants in Ivory Coast to lay down their arms, resulting in a cease fire after 5 years civil war, also donating 3 million from his Pepsi signing bonus to build a hospital in his home town