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TIL actor Oliver Reed died of a heart attack during the filming of Gladiator after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan’s Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling

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R78K8 TIL Peter Capaldi wrote and starred in a video as the 12th Doctor. This video was aimed at an autistic boy who had just lost his grandmother. By all accounts, the video gave the young boy enough courage to attend the funeral of his grandmother.
neGOr TIL that in 1885, James Whitcomb Riley wrote and published a poem called "Little Orphant Allie", based on a little girl he had met named Alice (nicknamed Allie). Due to a typo in the published version, her name was misspelled as Little Orphan Annie, and this name became a much more famous character.
YK77 TIL HP stock rose 10.5% when then CEO Carly Fiorina was forced out
lNGN TIL that a pizza with bacon and egg on it is a common offering at Australian pizza places.
YprGv TIL that Steven Spielberg bought and donated to the Academy Awards two Oscars that were being auctioned privately. He paid $578,000 for Bette Davis’ Best Actress Oscar for the 1938 movie “Jezebel,” and $607,500 for Clark Gable’s Best Actor Oscar for 1934’s “It Happened One Night.”