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TIL that comedy duo Key and Peele were auditioning for the same part when the director thought they worked well together

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1a7jO TIL of the great escape attempt of Juan, an Andean spectacled bear in Berlin zoo. Juan paddled across a moat using a log as a raft, scaled a wall and then finally appeared to commandeer a bicycle before being shot with a tranquiliser gun.
QN0GX TIL in the movie Raiders Of The Lost Ark Harrison Ford playing the Indiana Jones character in one now famous scene goes off script and shoots a swordsman because he had to go the toilet because he had a case of dysentery and the director chose to keep the scene.
9jrD TIL Owen the hippo got washed away from it’s mother. It then bonded with a giant 130 year old tortoise instead.
yjKl TIL Ravens have always been kept at the Tower Of London. When Charles II (a very superstitious Monarch) asked for the Ravens to be removed, he was advised that if the Ravens were removed, The Tower would crumble and a great harm would befall the nation.
yQlOX TIL of Vince Coleman, a train dispatcher who gave his life in the 1917 Halifax explosion to save hundreds of lives. His last message was: "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."