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TIL, Agent S is a girl. I've had her for years..

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Y7JeW TIL: 9 days before the start of production of Jaws, neither Quint nor Hooper had been cast. The role of Quint was originally offered to two other actors, both of whom passed. Robert Shaw was reluctant to take the role since he did not like the book but decided to accept at the urging of his wife.
kOVrm TIL in a 2005 NASA study, scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. The microbes had been frozen since when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, unaffected, and quickly became infectious.
mxXyY TIL "paint the town red" refers a night of drunken vandalism by the Maquess of Waterford. In 1837, he and a group of fox-hunting friends arrived in the English town of Melton Mowbray, where they painted several doors, a sign, a tollgate, the tollkeeper, and sevearl police officers with red paint.
KO7QE TIL Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., the 1958 Walt Disney Christmas special, “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas" airs on Sweden’s main public-television channel, TV1
xV9nD TIL Author Robert Howard created Conan the Barbarian and invented the entire 'sword and sorcery' genre. He took care of his sickly mother his entire adult life, never married and barely dated. The day his mother finally died, he he walked out to his car, grabbed a gun, and shot himself in the head.