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TIL Brad Kane (the actor that provided the singing voice for the original Aladdin) went on to become a writer for such shows as Black Sails and Tokyo Vice.

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1bo7 TIL Patrick Stewart, was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”. Roddenberry’s first choice was Stephen Macht
vPEyK TIL that the domain name "CarInsurance.com" holds the record for being the most expensive domain name ever sold, fetching a price of $49.7 million in 2010.
Wk8d9 TIL that the oldest animal (at least, the oldest whose age has been identified) was a 507 year-old clam that washed up on the beach in Iceland. Researchers, not realizing how old the clam was, killed it while they were examining it.
brd7 TIL that the only reason Indigo exists on the ROY G BIV spectrum is that Isaac Newton wanted 7 colors to correspond to the notes on a major scale
kONn1 TIL almost every time the General Lee jumped in the Dukes of Hazzard, the car was totaled. About 300 General Lees died while filming, generally two per episode.