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TIL M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little.

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p8ZN4 TIL that Porgs were included in Star Wars because they had no way of getting rid of all the puffins when they were filming in Ireland
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Z87Xo TIL that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie posthumously saved a girl’s life by having written in one of her stories about a rare poison. That same poison was killing this girl in real life, and the doctors had no clue, but a nurse happened to be reading that story at the time.
AoQ4 TIL that after 9/11, the Department of Justice spent $8,000 on blue drapes that hide nude statues added to the Great Hall in the 1930’s. The Spirit of Justice statue has a single breast completely exposed.
4kkea TIL about Private Jesse H. Hutchins. He enlisted with the Confederate Army five days after the shelling of Fort Sumpter in April 1861. He survived the entire war only to be killed on the final day of the war at Appomattox Courthouse