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TIL Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji

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d8gOZ TIL that 5 dogs died during the filing of the Air Budd sequel, Snow Buddies
yQ78a TIL, authors will write themselves into their own stories for various purposes. Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower series after a near-fatal accident. (Stephen King in the book also suffers the same accident)
8Q4P TIL that in a competition to build the world’s tallest building, the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125 ft long spire inside of it. When his competitor’s building was completed, the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft
KYXpG TIL Before the "Hot-Water-Bottle" people would use other people or animals to keep warm. Families and visitors would all sleep in the same bed. Barn animals were popular. Lap dogs were popular with the wealthy.
v7pL TIL The shortest correspondence in history was between Victor Hugo and his publisher in 1862. Inquiring about sales of Les Miserables Hugo telegraphed his publishers the single-character message “?”. Having sold out the first print in 24hrs, the reply was “!“