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TIL Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter from Raising Arizona were on the cover of a Serbian biology book

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D6EP TIL the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland once used real skeletons taken from UCLA’s Medical Center. Rumors still persist that a few of them still remains in the attraction.
Krxa TIL Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief who executed a suspected Viet Cong officer in the now world famous picture taken by Eddie Adams, moved to the US and opened a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C.
v1Roj TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers."
5YN5Q TIL Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the film lead role as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", but producers instead cast Audrey Hepburn because they feared Monroe would complicate the production. Capote later said the producers "double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey".
x0VD TIL: 1973 when Nolan Ryan was pitching a no hitter, the 27th batter Detroit Tigers Norm Cash walked up to the plate with a table leg.