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TIL Bill Murray says that he only agreed to make Garfield because he thought the script was written by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country For Old Men). It wasn’t. It was written by Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Daddy Day Camp.

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loAy7 TIL during the 1930s, George Ross Gyssling was Hitler’s man in Hollywood, placed there to ensure studios complied with the Führer and the suggested cuts or risk anti-Nazi themed films being barred in Germany. But unbeknown to his bosses, he was a double agent passing valuable intelligence to US
wZOW TIL George RR Martin bought the first ticket to the first Comic Con in 1964
xVO7 TIL only 58 people died from snake bites in Australia between 1979 and 2000 versus 46,000 per year in India.
5AXr TIL penguins covet pebbles, so much so that it leads some penguins to a life of crime
b6Ww9 TIL about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese workers from the U.S. for more than 60 years from 1882 until 1943