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TIL that the original creator of the Barbie doll had previously designed military-grade missiles

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69Wvm TIL Anne Rice author of Interview with the Vampire wanted English actor Julian Sands to play the role of Lestat and was disappointed with the studio's pick of a better known Tom Cruise. She unsucessfully proposed alternate picks. Despite this rice was subsequently pleased with Cruise's performance
BrDxd TIL: The New Zealand Parliament unanimously passed a motion to censure Ben Affleck, out of anger that a line in his film 'Argo' falsely claimed that the British and New Zealand embassies had turned away the six escaped American diplomats in Tehran during the hostage crisis.
b9bMN TIL "Hollywood" became "Holywood" briefly, when Pope John Paul II made a visit to USA on September 1987.
pYGYp TIL "Clyde" the orangutan in Clint Eastwood's film "Every Which Way But Loose" was frequently beaten by his trainer and died of a cerebral hemorrhage near the end of filming for the sequel
479o TIL that White Coke was a colorless, unlabeled variant of Coca-Cola developed to look like vodka for Soviet Marshall Zhukov, who was introduced to Coke by Dwight Eisenhower during WWII but did not want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism during the Cold War