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TIL that fancy car doors aren't necessarily more solid than lesser sounding ones

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E1onp TIL that Phil Hartman (Simpsons, Jingle all the Way) was, before his untimely-death, developing a live action movie for his beloved Simpsons character Troy McCLure. You might remember him from such educational videos as "Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly" and "Here Comes the Metric System!"
yVN1J TIL: Queen Elizabeth actually had to send her golden Wii back because of a security rule about unsolicited gifts
vPMlK TIL a python snake got addicted to meth fumes and was rehabilitated by Australian prisoners in a wildlife care program.
8aBeV There are a handful of people who are born into this world without fingerprints. The technical term for the condition is adermatoglyphia, dubbed 'immigration delay disease,' and for years, it wasn't known what caused the phenomenon. A couple of years ago, dermatologists found that the disease was related to a genetic mutation.
x4Y1 TIL: In “Saving Mr.Banks”, they made P.L. Travers look emotionally moved by the film Mary Poppins when in reality she was frustrated and angry with the outcome of her book being made into a movie.