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EgKEd TIL that the Wehrmacht suffered 80% of its military deaths in WW2 on the Eastern Front
LQMyp TIL that Ryan Reynolds, AKA Deadpool, has been secretly working with Make-A-Wish Foundation for over a decade, granting more than 600 wishes to children with critical illnesses. He's also donated millions to charity, including funding cancer research and supporting mental health organizations.
8APb TIL that for his role in Animal House, Donald Sutherland was offered $35k + 15% of the film’s gross. Thinking the film would be a flop, Sutherland negotiated a flat fee increase to $50k with no percentage of the gross. That decision cost him roughly $20 million.
Wk7vd TIL that the original voice of Pingu the claymation penguin, Carlo Bonomi, was also the voice of La Linea (The Line). He uses the same Italian style of gibberish in both.
xVBgg TIL Tyrannosaurus Rex had the biggest eyes of any terrestrial animal (so it had superb eyesight), had the strongest bite force of any animal, had feathers and was one of the largest land predators to have ever lived.