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TIL Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed literary human character in film and TV. 254 times as of 2012 ,by 75 actors

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DQXjv TIL British money bears a copyright symbol because the artist JSG Boggs made a good living drawing, painting, and selling currency from around the world
ZgZQ TIL that in the 1970 Mr. Olympia final, the judges could not decide between Arnold and Sergio Olivia so the two of them, exhausted, agreed to walk off. Sergio left, but Arnold, after taking one step, turned back to the judges, made fun of Sergio for leaving, and started posing again and won.
PYN1g TIL of Elasmotherium: an extinct giant hairy rhino that looked like Mudhorn from Mandalorian
kJo74 TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.
NDjM TIL that not once in Humpty Dumpty does it refer to him as an egg.