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TIL Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle is based on a fantasy novel written by British novelist Diana Wynne Jones in 1986

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Brn8y TIL that Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga was the man who portrayed Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. in the HBO Series “The Sopranos.” He also acted as a driver and bodyguard for Dr. Don Shirley in the 1960s, which the basis for the 2018 Best Picture Winning Movie “Green Book.” He was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen.
OGZBY TIL in 1960 Tom and James Monaghan bought DomiNick's, a small pizzeria, for $1400. Not wanting to quit his full-time job as a postman, James traded his half of the business to Tom for the VW Beetle they used for deliveries. Tom would later buy two more pizzerias and found Domino's Pizza.
1aNYO TIL the name “Quest” from the cartoon Jonny Quest was found and added to the show after the cartoonist Doug Wildey saw the name in a Los Angeles phone book. He thought it sounded adventurous and the name stuck.
oRAjK TIL Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it in Deadpool. The estate agreed for a donation in that amount to a charity of their choosing. Ryan paid it himself because he felt you couldn’t have Deadpool without Bea Arthur.
R5MOa TIL that CBS offered actress Candice Bergen to work as a journalist after "Murphy Brown". She declined, not wanting to blur between actor and journalist.