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TIL that Mike Myers has been trying to get a live-action Pepé Le Pew film made, with him voicing the titular Parisian skunk.

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GQv5 TIL that Romans did not have a thumbs down for gladiators. However, they did have a thumbs up, which symbolized the death of the gladiator.
7r71L TIL that since the 1980s, novelty Garfield phones have been washing up on the beaches of Brittany in France. It was only in 2019 that the source - a lost shipping container - was discovered
9w7ZX TIL R. Norris Williams survived the sinking of the Titanic clinging to an overturned lifeboat. The injuries to his legs were such the doctors aboard rescue ship suggested amputation. He refused and instead went on to recover his faculties and eventually winning the tennis Olympic gold medal in 1924.
PYKYE TIL that "Smarties" in Canada and USA mean two different things. American Smarties are called "rockets" in Canada, and Canadian Smarties doesn't exist in USA.
NMGP TIL while rock star Bono was busy campaigning to have first-world taxpayers forgive all third world debt, U2 was simultaneously hiding its earnings from Irish tax collectors in the Netherlands.