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TIL Legendary Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart's final film role was the character "Wylie Burp" in the 1991 animated film, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

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vP1DK TIL that the phrase "unsung hero" literally means a person about whom there is no song, referring to the ancient idea that heroes should be celebrated in song.
KOEZw TIL Dasrath Manjhi spent 1960 to 1982 chiseling away at a mountain, without anyone assisting him, to create a new road which shortened the driving distance to his village by 40 km. He was motivated by the fact that his wife died from being unable to get to a hospital in time.
nWo49 TIL that the two earliest versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch were created with egg tempera and crayon on cardboard. These editions are now in the Oslo National Gallery and the Munch Museum.
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