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TIL: The Welsh word for ladybug (buwch goch gota) literally translates to 'short red cow'

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G9ME TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan
LkkLd TIL The actor ( Christopher Sarandon ) who played Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride was also the voice actor for Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas
l70mN TIL about Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist who discovered pulsars in 1972, had her boss not only take credit for the discovery but also win a Nobel prize for it.
GYpm7 TIL that when Aaron Sorkin was asked why Tom Cruise and Demi Moore don't sleep together in A Few Good Men, Sorkin responded: "Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise."
9Y5B7 TIL about Navy Seaman Charles Jackson French who, after his ship the USS Gregory was sunk in WWII, swam for 6-8 hours towing a raft of 15 survivors through shark-infested waters. He later received the Navy Cross.