5Gl8 TIL that if a female clownfish dies, the male mate would change its sex and reproduce with it’s own children to continue passing genetic material. That’s why Nemo’s dad wanted to find him so badly ;)
ndb9 TIL Paul McCartney, a Weird Al Yankovic fan, refused Yankovic permission to record a parody of Wings’ “Live and Let Die”, titled “Chicken Pot Pie”, because McCartney didn’t want to condone eating meat.
4PRw TIL that in 2014 Charles Manson was granted a marriage license, but the wedding was cancelled after it was discovered that 26 year old Afton Elaine “Star” Burton only wanted to marry Manson so she and a friend Craig “Gray Wolf” Hammond could use his corpse as a tourist attraction after he dies
6DAw TIL: A burning candle gives off the same signals as a female moth wanting sex. The male moth is highly attracted to it and dies attempting to mate with a candle flame
6Dml TIL George Lucas wanted Tupac Shakur to play a Jedi (Mace Windu) for Starwars The Phantom Menace in 1996 but he died before his audition and was replaced by Samuel L. Jackson in 1997 when production began.
bxaZ TIL of Pete Maravich. During an interview in 1974, he said, “I don’t want to play 10 years [in the NBA] and then die of a heart attack when I’m 40.” He died of a heart attack in 1988, at age 40, after a 10 year career in the NBA.
Xb48 TIL of the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge - a professional high diver who wanted to ‘demonstrate that people did not die by simply falling through the air’. He proved himself correct after falling, safely, 135 feet through the air; dying from impact upon hitting the water.
XbrP TIL that when Pablo Escobar’s daughter wanted a unicorn, he bought her a horse and stapled a cone to its head and wings to its back. The horse died from infection.
KaKw TIL after Lenny Bruce died cops wanted his body and death scene to look more like a junkie for news photographers. They posed him, pulled his pants down, and put a box of syringes by his body.
Y50W TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.