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TIL Julie Kavner, the voice of Marge Simpson, is 70 years old
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TIL that Jurassic Park’s visual effects were so groundbreaking to filmmakers that it inspired George Lucas to start working on the Star Wars prequels, Stanley Kubrick to invest in pet project, A.I Artificial Intelligence, and Peter Jackson to work on Lord of the Rings.
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TIL in 1859 an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. The conflict escalated to involve 461 Americans & 14 artillery against 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig
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TIL Far More English Coins Have Been Found in Scandinavia than in England from the Period of Viking Invasions
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TIL that actor Gary Cooper was friends with Ernest Hemingway, and Hemingway based the main character of his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" on Cooper. When they later made a film out of the book, Cooper played the role that was based on him in the first place.
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TIL that the USPS is a year older than the United States