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TIL there is a raccoon problem in Japan, they were introduced as pets, but people kept releasing them.

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rodd TIL The actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, stopped learning his lines after learning his voice would be dubbed over. Instead, he would improvise lines, sometimes speaking complete gibberish, forcing his co-stars to respond as if he had said the correct line.
l7X41 TIL that, on June 26, 1940, a group of American businessmen with ties to Nazi Germany organized a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria New York to celebrate the Fall of France. Attendees to the dinner included Edsel Ford of Ford Motor Company, Torkild Rieber of Texaco and Sosthenes Behn of ITT Corporation.
W7pad TIL: When people act like Frankenstein's monster, they often stretch their arms out in front of them because of the 1943 movie Frankenstein Meets the Wolf-Man. In the movie the monster is blinded and has to walk holding his hands in front of him.
l7RP5 TIL a bunch of Mexican VW car dealership owners sent a Volkswagen Beetle to Pope John Paul II
E1B6d TIL Popsicle® was invented by an 11 year old boy in 1905 when he left his soda outside overnight and it froze.