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TIL JK Rowling told Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe that "you and Rupert and Emma are all too good looking" for their roles because she imagined her characters to be geeky looking

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OoPG7 TIL that when Robin Williams auditioned for the part of Mork, an extraterrestrial from the planet Ork, Williams sat on his head when offered a chair. He was hired on the spot, the producer later commenting “Williams was the only alien who auditioned for the role.”
pYZQb TIL that the last ship the legendary American frigate USS Constitution ever captured was an illegal slave ship named H. N. Gambrill. The 1853 seizing occurred while Constitution was serving as flagship of the United States Navy's anti-slave trading Africa Squadron.
yw1M TIL: That Anne Frank only assumed that her father was killed in the concentration camps and that a childhood friend of hers stated that if she knew he was still alive she believed Anne would have summoned the courage to survive
WP5o TIL A man faked his death to make his wife realise how much she missed him. He left his clothes on the beach and placed an anonymous call to police to say he’d just seen a naked man walk into the sea. But he was soon discovered and his wife filed for divorce after learning about the prank.
KGLw TIL that a former 19th century Chinese prostitute became a pirate queen/unstoppable killer and retired with great respect and fortune.