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TIL That River Phoenix was to play the role of Daniel Molloy in Interview with the Vampire but upon his untimely death 4 weeks before shooting Christian Slater was cast and then donated his entire salary to Phoenix’s favorite charities.

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xV80B TIL of Bobby Driscoll, famous Disney child actor in the 1940s and 50s (including the voice of Peter Pan), who died penniless and alone at age 31 in an abandoned NYC building. When his body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked grave.
W7J0Y TIL Loofahs are actually plants
VBkQZ TIL Mordecai Myers was the only member of his family of 15 to survive after their home was swept into the ocean during an 1822 hurricane. He buried each of them himself (including his parents)
wLRbM TIL when a pedophile ring was uncovered in the Pitcairn Islands the islanders tried to declare independence from the UK as a legal defence, in perhaps the only example of a group seeking independence for the freedom to sexually abuse children
LQ0yV TIL the navigator Henry Hudson was cast adrift by mutineers, along with his son and six others in 1611, in Hudson Bay. They were never seen again.