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TIL Jon Heder only made $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.

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VMm5B TIL that famed composer of musicals (i.e. Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and Evita) Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote his first full-length musical at age 17.
691nY TIL a study found that 25% of Labrador retrievers and 66% of flat-coated retrievers possess a genetic mutation that can lead to weight gain; dogs with the gene face the "double whammy" of constant hunger while burning fewer calories. The Labrador has the highest levels of obesity among dog breeds.
4GlJ TIL The US military sends its doctors to Chicago to give them practice for gunshot wounds
rNJbW TIL that 0.8% of the population is unable to form visual mental images, per a 2022 study.
Yp5vd TIL of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the longest-lived British princess by descent, and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. She lived through six reigns- those of Victoria, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI and Elizabeth II. She died in 1981, aged 97.