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TIL that the cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene of The Godfather used to hang around the studio and was simply dropped into his lap at the last minute by the director

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D1x5P TIL that when an Indian Captain was badly wounded in WW2 Burma and thought to be on his deathbed, he was quickly awarded a Military Cross because at the time it couldn't be given posthumously. He survived and became the first Indian to be promoted to Field Marshal.
R78K8 TIL Peter Capaldi wrote and starred in a video as the 12th Doctor. This video was aimed at an autistic boy who had just lost his grandmother. By all accounts, the video gave the young boy enough courage to attend the funeral of his grandmother.
QNdV6 TIL Walt Disney brought live animals to the studio for more realistic animation of the movie Bambi
4XWPw TIL: About the Grays Harbor Lighthouse, in Westport, WA. At 107 feet tall, it's not the tallest but its light is powered by a 35 watt bulb that can be seen for 19 miles or 31km.
j6yeX TIL that Klaus and Sunny from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow, a famous attempted murder case where a wealthy lawyer was found guilty of injecting his wife, Sunny, with a deadly insulin cocktail which left her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life