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TIL Will Ferrell was offered $29 million to star in Elf 2. He declined.

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WkblY TIL in 2015, a British woman began receiving threatening emails from a stalker that included pictures of her in public she had no idea were being taken. When she contacted authorities, they told her the emails were coming from inside her house. It turned out to be her husband.
OGavg TIL the very first phone call was between the head of Motorola to his rival at Bell Laboratories to brag, "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone."
JYZbQ TIL: The Cowardly Lion costume in the Wizard of Oz was made of real lion fur, skin and human hair. It recently sold at auction for 3 million dollars.
8eaaP TIL that after 9/11, On January 5, 2002, Charles Bishop, a high-school student from Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and purposefully crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida, killing no one but himself in the process
YpOQZ TIL that, at the time of his death aged 97 years and 4 days, Harland Fairweather was the oldest person ever with a living parent. His mother Violent Brown died almost five months later at age 117.