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TIL King Abdullah II of Jordan is a fan of "Star Trek: Voyager", where the then-Prince once appeared as a non-speaking character.

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R78La TIL Jim Henson lost the Hoggle puppet from "Labyrinth" after traveling back from the overseas movie set. The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama discovered it inside a lost shipping container and now it is on display at their museum of found treasures.
WnoL TIL of Joe Arridy, a man with an IQ of 46 and the “happiest prisoner on death row.” He spent his time on death row playing with a toy train, and he went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
B4vx TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s wounds glowed blue; soldier’s whose wounds glowed had a better chance of surviving, and so the glow was called “Angel’s Glow”. Now it is known that the luminescence is due to bacteria that produce antibiotics and that live in nematodes
05QR TIL The armorer on the Matrix films disapproved of the Agents using Desert Eagle pistols, calling them pistols made for “wankers”
Oo16L TIL the dull side of nonstick tinfoil is the nonstick side