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TIL Michelle Pfiefer put a real live bird in her mouth for her role as Catwoman in Batman Returns

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yV0Xv TIL Pacha an Incan cosmological concept associating the physical world and space with time, and corresponding with the concept of space-time
BrlAe TIL that C.S. Lewis died on the same day as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, resulting in Lewis's death being overshadowed by Kennedy's.
XEWNj TIL When building the Trevi Fountain, Nicola Salvi ensured to add an urn on the right before he died. This was to block an “unsightly” barbershop whose owner had been continuously critiquing the work.
mxvgE TIL when Norway first discovered oil, Iraqi geologist, Farouk Al-Kasim, warned Norway how private companies can take advantage of a country's oil wealth. As a result of his advice Norway had invested its wealth to create a fund of over US$1 Trillion. He knighted in 2012 by the King of Norway.
9owp TIL North Korea has made a thriving state sponsored industry out of insurance scams for decades