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TIL Edward Mordake reportedly had an extra face on the back of his head, which could neither eat nor speak, although it could laugh and cry

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VMp0G TIL Peter Mayhew was eligible for the roles of either Chewbacca or Darth Vader. He chose Chewbacca because he wanted to play a hero.
yVDol TIL Underworld's "Born Slippy .NUXX" from the Trainspotting soundtrack had vocals recorded in one take after a night of drinking: Karl Hyde meant it as a "cry for help" from alcoholism, and repeated lines when he lost his place, resulting in the iconic "lager, lager, lager, lager".
bwR9 TIL Martin Luther King Day is celebrated in Japan to teach the importance of electoral politics and non-violent social change
Ypkvv TIL a man sent free tennis balls to people all over the world if they promised to use them to play with their dogs
Bx8r TIL that, until the 1980s, physicians routinely operated on infants without anesthetic - administering only muscle relaxants to prevent motion - under the belief that infants could not feel pain