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TIL that a pet bird once helped solve a murder.

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rNdko TIL that Groucho Marx had several “last words” before his death. Some had thought it was “either I’m dead or my watch has stopped,” whilst others believed it to be “die, my dear? why that’s the last thing I’ll do!” His actual last words were “this is no way to live.”
7dBx TIL that fans reacted badly to Arthur Conan Doyle killing off Sherlock Holmes. It was front-page news around the world; 20,000 people cancelled subscriptions to ‘Strand’ magazine and sent hate mail; thousands wrote to the author begging him to undo the death. Doyle resurrected Holmes a decade later.
PPAE TIL The actor for Darth Vader (David Prowse) learnt all of Vader’s lines and acted as Vader in the films only for all his lines to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones because Prowse sounded like “some Scottish guy”.
AD06o TIL Brendan Fraser pays $900,000 a year in alimony to his ex-wife Afton Smith. They got separated in 2008…
ZRgR TIL Onions are the only commodity banned from futures trading in the United States. The Onion Futures Act was passed in 1958 after two traders cornered the onion market in Chicago controlling 98% of all available onions.