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OAaa TIL JRR Tolkien typed the entirety of the Lord of the Rings using a two finger pecking style
d8mEE TIL Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation to perform at the Woodstock festival, because James' secretary put it to him as "Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field."
MeWZa TIL of Doozy Bots, an early attempt in 1991 to bring the Gundam anime franchise to the US. It involved a "Professor Doozy" turning a group of kids into various robots to fight other robots that went haywire. No networks picked up the series.
VLNm TIL there is a planned Thomas the Tank Engine movie set in WWII
6Ejaw TIL Alcatraz's prison guards created the myths about man eating sharks and deadly waters of San Francisco to discourage prisoners from escaping. There is only one recorded shark fatality in San Francisco in 1959