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TIL That Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight

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b6Q87 TIL that although Bob Marley wrote No Woman, No Cry, he credited his friend Vincent Ford as a co-songwriter so the royalties would fund Ford’s soup kitchen in Kingston, Jamaica.
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