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TIL Anthony Hopkins once looked throughout the whole London for the book "The girl from Petrovka". Unable to find it he headed home, only to find a manuscript off the book on a bench. It later turned out to be the authors copy, which had been in a stolen car and dumped by the theif.

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9YB6r TIL that serial killer Randy Woodfield was actually drafted by the NFL to play for the Green Bay Packers but was cut due to a series of indecent exposure arrests. He would go on to become the I-5 Killer and is thought to have been responsible for over 40 murders along Interstate 5 from 1980-81
7rD7 TIL Steve Carell supported the 2007 WGA strike and called in sick to the network “ citing the case of enlarged balls as to why he couldn’t come in.”
awDJA TIL that ancient Greek historian Herodotus once reported that there existed gold-digging ants. This was most likely a translation error. But there are marmots in the Himalayas of the Deosai plateau where local tribes have been known to collect gold dust from their burrows
lZJN TIL the X-Files episode ‘Home’ which was about a murderous inbred family was loosely based on a story from Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography where a family introduced him to their quadruple amputee son by pulling him out from under a bed after which he “flopp[ed] around” while they sang and danced.
PKNw TIL that in June 1983 British Sea Harrier pilot Sub-Lt Ian Watson lost radio contact with his ship and with one minute of fuel remaining landed his aircraft on the deck of an unsuspecting cargo ship