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TIL that power couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones share a birthday - September 25

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EZPd TIL that Charlie Sheen took steroids in preparation for his role as Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn in Major League.
16OGP TIL multiple U.S. companies have been caught over the years selling raccoon dog (tanuki) fur as "faux fur." Three were sued and reached settlements with the government that included no financial penalty.
nWLVW TIL that the total value of all the gold owned in the world is only slightly less than the total value of all stocks ($18 trillion vs $22 trillion, respectively)
4XrPg TIL that decades after reunification, the former border between East and West Berlin is still visible from space at night due to differences between the streetlamps used by the two sides
7rwjb TIL Spielberg began work on a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind called 'Night Skies' about a family living in a house being attacked by aliens which then split into both E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist. In Gremlins, you'll see a theater marquee listing abandoned names for E.T.