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TIL De Armas’ breakout role as Paloma in No Time To Die was written specifically for her by director Cary Joji Fukunaga, who had been a fan of hers for years.

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X0PJr TIL that Tony Bennett, the great jazz/pop singer, was also a successful artist (and his paintings are amazing). His painting of Ella Fitzgerald is in the Smithsonian. How did I not know this before?
7rD4X TIL that Gene Wilder got into comedy and acting because of his mother's heart condition. His mother's doctor told him to 'Try to make her laugh,' to make her feel better, leading to his conscious efforts to make other people laugh.
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BgEwy TIL about the Summerland disaster, where on 2nd August 1973 a leisure centre on the Isle of Man caught on fire, killing 50 people and injuring dozens more due to poor design and the use of unsuitable, flammable building materials
oB6Gr TIL that a tornado appeared out of nowhere in DC after the British set fire to the White House in 1814, putting out the flames and killing more soldiers than the American resistance.