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TIL world famous mime Marcel Marceau appears in the 1976 Mel Books film "Silent Movie". He has the only speaking role.

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E106V TIL Neil Armstrong resigned from NASA to take a teaching job, where he stayed for more than eight years—longer than his career as an astronaut. As part of a research group that included physician Henry Heimlich, he helped to design an artificial heart-lung system based on Apollo technology
wlkE TIL A French woman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
Eg94P TIL that Zelda Fitzgerald wrote 'plagiarism begins at home' in response to her husband, F.Scott Fitzgerald, ripping off lines from her diary for his novels.
9jYQ TIL that the band Rammstein was named after the Ramstein air show disaster, a mid-air collision between 3 stunt planes that killed 70 people and wounded approximately 1,000 people.
xV7Bw TIL that the "China" that actually helped found the UN and sat on the Security Council until 1971 was the Taiwanese government. After this they started losing a lot of international recognition.