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TIL: Johnny Cash was the voice of the coyote on The Simpsons episode with the insanity pepper trip.

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DQg9v TIL of the 1981 film Roar, starring Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall , her daughter Melanie Griffith and Noel's two sons. It has been described as "the most dangerous film ever made" in which they used wild, untrained animals. Although no deaths occured, numerous serious injuries did.
16OPD TIL Denver International Airport (Colorado, USA) occupies 52.4 square miles (136 sq km), making DIA larger in land area (excluding water) than the US cities of Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.
jN4XM TIL of Joe Petrosino - badge #285 - the NYPD's first Italian police officer. He created the first anti-mafia unit and tipped off the Secret Service about McKinley's assassination, but they didn't act on it.
rRADd TIL a woman put cyanide in pill bottles of Excedrin and placed them on the shelves of stores. This led to the deaths of her husband and a 40 year old woman.
4bEw TIL that C.S. Lewis entered a civil marriage with a woman so she could avoid deportation. Then, after she developed terminal cancer, they eventually fell in love and re-married while she was in the hospital. They were married for three years before she passed away.