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TIL that actor Geoffrey Rush was cast for The King's Speech after reading the script which was hand delivered to his home, against industry practices. The production manager later received a four-page email from Rush's agent, berating him for the breach of etiquette, but said that Rush likes it.

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OorDY TIL Almond milk was a popular medieval food item
BM1b TIL that when trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour.” And that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies as they were accelerated to that speed.”
GYly1 TIL of Baby Nancy, a girl who died shortly after birth. Her father, an officer on the USS Utah, brought her ashes aboard with the plan to bury her at sea. During the Japanese attack, he escaped the ship but could not rescue Nancy's ashes, and they are still in his locker to this day.