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TIL of the MASH spinoff WALTER, about Radar O'Reilly after the war. He had lost his farm, had to evict his mother from her home, and his wife left him for his best friend during their honeymoon leaving him destitute and suicidal. It was a comedy…

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QJbKp TIL the first "Seven Wonders" lists came guidebooks popular with Hellenic sightseers that date from the 2nd-1st century BC.
v1MxL TIL Timothy Dalton was first approached to play James Bond n 1967, but felt he was far too young at only 21 years old, and, more importantly, didn’t want to be the first actor to follow Sean Connery. He was again asked in 1979, but did not like the direction the series had been going in at the time
naDb TIL… In 1977, a 23-year old graduate student stumbled upon a compound with effects similar to heroin. He made a bunch and shared it with his friends to get high, except the batch he made was contaminated with a toxic byproduct that left them all with debilitating Parkinson’s Disease within a week.
xVPrb TIL In the 1997 film Titanic, James Cameron himself draw all of the art for Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack, including the famous sketch if Kate Winslet. The close up shots of Jack creating the drawing are actually of Cameron's hands, not DiCaprio's
ZdvG TIL that the people who work on the iPhone assembly line make but $1.78 an hour