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TIL: Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) failed to get the Han Solo part in Star Wars, then he mentioned the movie to the bum crashing on his couch, Mark Hamill

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eg9J TIL Roger Ebert said the 2004 film National Treasure was “so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.”
WGgB TIL that in 1982, while wearing his future wife Sharon’s dress, Ozzy Osbourne drunkenly urinated on a cenotaph erected in honour of those who died at the Alamo in Texas. He was arrested and subsequently banned from the city of San Antonio for 10 years.
kO06B TIL that during the run-up to the Gulf War, Muhammad Ali travelled to Iraq and personally secured the release of 15 American hostages being detained by Saddam Hussein, despite the US Government and press condemning the mission and Ali as 'another egomaniacal celebrity out of his depth'.
vdLj TIL that the Red Wolf is a canine species unique to the US that was hunted down to near extinction but is now being rescued after once only 17 animals remained
KYO0J TIL when J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife and muse Edith had just met each other they were spending time by throwing sugarlumps into the hats of passers-by from the balcony of a teashop