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TIL That Michael Ironside managed to beat cancer twice: thyroid and prostate.

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N78j8 TIL the actor who played the lead guitarist, Zack, in the movie “School of Rock” was arrested multiple times 15 years later for stealing guitars and amplifiers from music shops.
1aY7P TIL that in the early 2000s iG, one of Brazil's largest web portals, decided to have a "Good News Day" to improve the perception of the media as bearer of bad news. The previous day, they annouced it would start on 9/11/2001. It only lasted a few hours.
yQnmp TIL of Charles Ramsey, a Cleveland man who was key in the rescue of 3 women & a child from over a decade of captivity in a neighbor's home. When word got out he was eating a Big Mac when he heard a woman's cries for help, over a dozen Ohio restaurants pledged to offer him a free burger anytime.
4XjYb TIL In 1957 woman was struck by consecutive foul balls. First one broke her nose and the second broke her leg while being carried out on a stretcher.
W7VQ4 TIL that sandhill cranes have one of the longest fossil histories of any extant bird. The oldest confirmed sandhill crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, while most living species of birds date back to less than 1.8 million years.