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TIL Angela from Family Guy is voiced by Carrie Fisher, AKA Princess Leia

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pgBO TIL in Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky’s pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time.
vWBD TIL the two African-American athletes who gave the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics were also shoeless during the protest. This was to represent black poverty.
grjgA TIL that after Goathe's novel "Sorrows of Young Werther" was published there was a marked increase in young men shooting themselves in the head while dressed as Werther was when he did the same thing.
oLoE TIL: Pocahontas and Shakespeare were alive at the same time and died only a year apart.
Z57Q TIL Rope (1948 Jimmy Stewart, IMDb 8.1 RT 97%) is an 80 min Hitchcock film shot in only 10 takes, with every other cut masked so it looks like only 5 takes (projectionists changed reels every 20 min) It takes place in real time, is Hitchcock’s first Technicolor film, and was banned for homosexuality