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TIL the New Zealand army helped in making the LOTR films by filling as Soldiers and Orcs

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Z8QL4 TIL that John Fiedler, the original voice of Piglet, died one day after Paul Winchell, the original voice of Tigger, in 2005.
KjrQ TIL the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 couldn’t afford the life insurance policy for an astronaut, so they hatched an alternate plan. Prior to their mission, the three signed hundreds of autographs while under quarantine for their families to sell if anything were to happen to them.
6Ewbl TIL that in 2019 there was a sixth Terminator movie (after Terminator: Genysis) which so few people saw that that it was even less successful than Terminator: Genysis. The film grossed only 13% of what was needed to break even and was considered a box office bomb due to lukewarm critical reception.
QWjd TIL That a robotic chess machine called ‘The Turk’ toured the world in the 1700s, easily defeating prominent statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte. A human chess master was long suspected to have been hidden inside, but wasn’t exposed for 84 years.
nWWNd TIL that there are 250 species of ants who are growing fungi. Some practice lower agriculture, harvesting implemented wild fungi, while others like the Leave Cutter Ants practice high agriculture, growing their own, fully domesticated fungi which are completely dependent on their ant farmers.