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TIL that snails can sleep for three years.
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TIL 100 years ago Rupert Murdoch's father, a journalist, conspired with anti-Semitic war historian Charles Bean, to convince the Prime Minister of Australia to de-mote Australian General and commander of the Western front John Monash, a man stongly admired by his troops and of Jewish heritage.
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TIL that while filming The Jazz Singer (1980), Neil Diamond, who was new to acting, was having trouble playing a scene where his character was supposed to be angry, so he asked his band to play a Barry Manilow song to make him angry for real.
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TIL that the character who sings the famous opera song “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” was said to be modeled on the real-life Sir Garnet Wolseley. Rather than being offended by the caricature, Wolseley would sing the song to amuse his friends.
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TIL two conniving brothers sold a counterfeit Goya painting for €1,500,000 just to find out all the money was fake, too
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TIL the NHL uses frozen hockey pucks for all its games so the pucks aren’t too bouncy, and the pucks, which are replaced before every period, are kept in a freezer in the penalty box.