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TIL Chris Farley was the original voice of Shrek. He even recorded 80-90% of his lines. None of the audio has ever been made public.

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K5oG TIL 12 Russian botanists starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the winter of 1941, rather than consuming the foodstuffs stored at the world’s first seed bank where they worked, Pavlosk Experimental Station.
d8eKE TIL In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves
QJmWa TIL John Swartzwelder's reclusive life and prolific writing for The Simpsons made fans theorize that he was a pseudonym for episodes that had multiple writers. Swartzwelder is credited with writing 59 episodes, more than any other individual.
axRy TIL Chattanooga broadcast legend Luther Masingill is the only announcer to have reported over the air both the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attacks of 9/11.
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