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TIL Actress Hayley Atwell got her drivers licence photo taken in full ''Peggy Carter'' makeup.

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e07Rk TIL that 1986s Howard the Duck box office failure lead the films producer (George Lucas) to be so badly in debt that he had to sell he just-launched computer-animation division to his friend, Steve Jobs of Apple.That same year, Jobs renamed the company to Pixar.
5Yo4P TIL on 1642, Sir John Denham asked Charles I to spare Sir William Waller from execution, saying that "while Wither lives, Denham will not be the worst poet in England."
9Y1pQ TIL that earwigs have wings.
W7BeL TIL a WWII German fighter aircraft, the BF-109, had a unique weapon design - cannon which was installed in the engine and fired through the propeller hub
P1KkO TIL that a monkey named Jocko Flocko was the co-driver for stock car racer Tim Flock for 8 races in 1953. Two weeks after becoming the only NASCAR-winning monkey, Jocko was euthanized after getting out of his seatbelt and hit in the head with a pebble during what became his final race