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TIL Bill Murray only got involved in Garfield: The Movie because he thought producer Joel Cohen was Joel Coen.

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x6A6g TIL about the submarine USS R-14, who in during a rescue mission in 1921 had its fuel contaminated with seawater, cause the loss of battery power and radio communication. Its crew were able to make the 161 mile return trip to homeport by creating sails out of hammocks and blankets.
aDGA TIL that Sean Penn once beat Madonna over the head with a baseball bat, shot at a paparazzi, and hung another paparazzi by his ankles from a ninth-floor balcony
EbDo TIL The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100% beer, drinking the fermented nectar of the flower buds of the bertam plant. This nectar can reach up to 3.8% alcohol content. Despite this, they don’t appear to get drunk.
xJJ0 TIL Fox News has a whole segment dedicated to recycling Reddit material. It’s called “Fox On Reddit.”
X0orX TIL that as the reigning monarch of 14 countries, King Charles III is allowed to travel without a passport and drive without a license.