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TIL that John Carpenter offered Christopher Lee the roll of Dr. Loomis in the classic 1978 horror film Halloween. Lee declined due to the low pay, but later said that declining the role was his biggest career mistake.

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xVKWb TIL that weeks before the end of World War II a group of Russian school children presented a wood replica of the Great Seal of the U.S. to the American ambassador. Hanged up in a study in the ambassador’s residence, it contained a listening device that went undiscovered for 7 years.
XWG6 TIL: The only X-files episode to carry a TV-MA rating for being very disturbing (for its time) was “Home”, about an inbred family
4ko4J TIL in 1858, a large brawl involving 50 US representatives erupted on the House floor, ending only when a missed punch from Rep. Washburn upended the hairpiece of Rep. Barksdale. The embarrassed Barksdale accidentally replaced the wig backwards, causing both sides to erupt in spontaneous laughter.
DJ9r TIL that when celebrated singer Marian Anderson was denied permission to perform for an integrated audience because she was black, President Franklin Roosevelt arranged for her to give a concert on the steps of Lincoln memorial that was heard by thousands in person and millions over the radio
ANkZw TIL we can inherit traits from our parents and even emotions like fear. From Science, a recent study "found that heritable changes in plant flowering time and other traits were the result of epigenetics alone."