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TIL that Jodie Foster was so fluent in French that she dubbed her own movies.

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lkG5 TIL that the Canadian Flag that flies over the Peace Tower of the Canadian Parliament is changed daily. Used flags are then given away. Any Canadian resident may request one of these flags but the current waiting period is 63 years.
6EXZW TIL Charles Shultz included Franklin, a black child, in his Peanuts comic strip at the height of the civil rights movement. He has since been accused of racism, but that is entirely incorrect. Shultz threatened to quit if his strips with Franklin weren’t run as is.
Yend TIL that “Nacho Libre” was based upon a Catholic priest turned luchador who called himself “Fray Tormenta” (Friar Storm); he supported an orphanage for 23 years with his second career.
x66Vo TIL that Flo Rida tests his upcoming songs at strip clubs first to check if girls are dancing to it before releasing them
lP5K TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup the Benfica coach Béla Guttmann allegedly cursed the Lisbon based club for denying him a pay rise “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached six European Cup Finals but lost all of them.