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TIL In the 2007 comic book series of "The Boys", Hughie was modeled off Simon Pegg... who then later played as Hugie's father in the Amazon Prime Show in 2019.

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R7Zj8 TIL President Warren G. Harding held birthday parties for his dog Laddie Boy where he would invite neighborhood dogs and serve dog biscuit cakes to guests. A statue of Laddie Boy was made out of 19,134 pennies after the President’s death.
kOpbm TIL that panthers are not their own species, but rather " melanistic colour variant of any Panthera, particularly of the leopard (P. pardus) in Asia and Africa, and the jaguar (P. onca) in the Americas."
8elGb TIL that the United States Air Force owns 4 Doomsday planes specifically designed for nuclear war, and one of them has a callsign named 'ORDER66'
Y7GEB TIL that Christopher Guest who played Nigel Tufnel on This Is Spinal Tap was also a member of the British House of Lords.
j6Klv TIL James O’Barr, author of “The Crow”, approached The Cure’s Robert Smith to contribute an existing song for the upcoming film. Smith, a huge fan of the graphic novel, opted instead to write and record a new track, “Burn”, in 2 days.