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TIL Robin Williams improvised so much during the recording of Aladdin that the Disney team had over 16 hours of material, and his performance was deemed ineligible for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.

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9wg9D TIL that despite there having been only 21 popes named John, the most recent one was numbered XXIII due to clerical errors introduced in the Middle Ages that resulted in Antipope John XVI being counted for centuries and John XX being skipped entirely.
O7le TIL that Despot, Tyrant, Dictator, and Autocrat were originally respectable titles and did not have the negative connotations we do today
b9LG0 TIL that William Hootkins, the actor who played the rebel pilot Porkins in Star Wars: A New Hope, was questioned by the FBI after the assassination of JFK, was school classmates with Tommy Lee Jones, and studied astrophysics and oriental studies at Princeton University.
6ExaQ TIL framers of the US Constitution including Ben Franklin and James Madison were inspired by the 117-article constitution of the six-nation Iroquois Confederacy created before European contact. The law was preserved orally and written in wampum symbols that conveyed meaning.
VMbjZ TIL Christopher Havens, a convicted murderer solves ancient math problem in prison. Taught himself higher math and solved the age-old math puzzle of number theory involving so-called continued fractions over which Euclid has already racked his brains. He then published the journal in January 2020.