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TIL the actor who played the female marine in Aliens, Jenna Vasquez, thought the movie was about illegal imigrants at first. She arrived at the audition for the tough-as-nails space marine wearing a skirt and high heels.

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Br4vL TIL that US rapper Jay-Z stabbed record producer Lance Riviera in a Berlin nightclub in 1999 and was sentenced to 3 years' probation for second-degree felony assault.
m1ZlY TIL about the final episode of the TV show Howdy Doody. To save money the three different actors who played Clarabell the clown over the 13-year run were not allowed to speak, but communicated through mime and a horn. The series ended with Clarabell looking into the camera to say "Goodbye, kids."
PYomw TIL Elijah Wood, Sean Bean, and Orlando Bloom were flying out of Newark airport on September 11, 2001 and saw the world trade center in flames from the air.
PpxE TIL that a man became stranded in an African desert, 20 miles away from the nearest village, when his car broke down. He escaped by building a motorcycle from his broken car and rode it out of the desert.
GrYj TIL one of the first books burned by Nazis, Heinrich Heine play, contained a famous line “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people”