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TIL Bryan Cranston voiced Lord Rama in a 1992 anime adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana

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awMQ0 TIL that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower had a speech prepared in the event that the 1944 D-Day invasion failed. In the speech he takes full responsibility for the failure of the operation.
gM9rL TIL that Alan Rickman was originally chosen to voice Lord Farquaad from Shrek, but he chose instead to play Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films.
X0o7E TIL the company of Cards Against Humanity paid to buy the island of Hawaii 2 (in Maine ofc)
wWXY TIL Tommy Lee Jones is the face of the advertising campaign for Boss canned coffee in Japan, and has been for some time
oBnGK TIL That in 1938 pitchers intentionally walked and pitched around Hank Greenberg as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s (at the time) record of 60 home runs in a season, because they didn’t want a Jew to break Ruth’s record.