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TIL Olive Oyl was the main character 10 years before Popeye in their original comic strip

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jjkn TIL the ship used in Pirates of the Caribbean was sunk in Hurricane Sandy
jLmX TIL Major Donnie Dunagan was the Marines’ youngest-ever drill instructor & served 3 tours in Vietnam, where he was wounded several times. He received the Bronze Star & the Purple Heart 3 times. For his entire Marine Corps service, he kept a secret that no one knew– he was the voice of Disney’s Bambi
oBoWK TIL that when you have something on the tip of your tongue, but all you can think of is that similar (but not the desired) fact, those intrusive thoughts are called "Ugly Sisters".
nel4r TIL the "rule" which says never to end a sentence with a preposition may derive from John Dryden's habit of translating his own English verse into Latin. He did so to "check whether his writing was concise and elegant, Latin being considered an elegant and long-lived language with which to compare."
K95G TIL that Christopher Mintz-Plasse auditioned for the role of Fogell aka “McLovin” for movie Superbad using a head shot from his camera phone… and that his mom had to be on set during his sex scene because he was only 17 at the time.