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TIL that Werner Klemperer, who played the bumbling Col. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes, had a clause in his contract stipulating that Klink would always be portrayed as a fool, and never be victorious over Hogan, or he would quit the show.

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MeodB TIL That Limp Bizkit's music video for the song "Rollin" was filmed at the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and the song received the award for "Best Rock Video" at the 2001 MTV Music Awards on September 10th 2001. They also got a letter from the WTC thanking them for filming there.
4Xe4X TIL of a woman known as Patient S.M, who has no amygdala, which is the part of the brain responsible for fear. As a result she is unable to feel fear or read negative social cues, and doesn't understand personal space. The only time she ever felt fear is when a test was held replicating suffocation.
N7KoE TIL prolific film actor John Carradine died after climbing the 328 steps of Milan's cathedral at the start of a European vacation. His actor son David was with him, reading Shakespeare to him when he succumbed, and John's final words were reportedly "Milan: What a beautiful place to die"
YpVPA TIL Masturbation was frequently reported as Cause of Death for soldiers during the (American) Civil War. At the time, “the solitary vice” was thought to cause physical decay, insanity, and death.
wk5W TIL Axl Rose brutally beat and hospitalized his girlfriend, Erin Everly, on numerous occasions. He also, brought a gun when asking her to marriage threatening to kill himself had she declined.