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TIL a record company once sued singer John Fogerty for plagiarizing a song written by...John Fogerty!

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VBG8B TIL That in the original version of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly surrendered the Ring to Bilbo as reward for winning a Riddle Game. However, as Tolkien conceived LOTR, he realized that the Ring's grip on Gollum would never permit him to give it up willingly. Bilbo steals the ring in the 2nd edition.
YpPvB TIL Alan Rickman's final role was narrating a tortoise eating a strawberry
4Wab TIL - Tim Burton was reportedly uncomfortable with casting Christopher Walken as Max Shreck in Batman Returns. When the casting director asked him why he said, “Because that man scares the hell out of me.”
5nXp TIL Tom & Jerry ends with Tom & Jerry presumably committing suicide.
7rgN7 TIL Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf & a 15% stake in The Lord of the Rings trilogy because he 'never understood the script'. Had he accepted he'd have made $450 million for the role.