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oRRl7 TIL in 2000 Michael Sheen punched actor Jeremy Northam (the Prime Minister in The Crown) for making his wife Kate Beckinsale cry. Northam followed Beckinsale back to her trailer screaming she had ruined his performance in a take, so Sheen punched him right on the nose.
M7VAW TIL that Andrew Jackson's grey parrot Poll attended his funeral, and "commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.”
4xD6 TIL the actors that played Jon Snow and Ygritte fell in love on set and are currently a couple.
berZ TIL that it was Richard Nixon who unilaterally ordered the discontinuation of the United States’ biological and chemical weapons programs.
0X1p TIL if all of Canada was one state in the US, it would have 50 electoral votes – fewer than California.