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TIL Back to the Future's George McFly was only played by Crispin Glover in the first movie - for parts 2 and 3, it was actor Jeffrey Weissman wearing a Crispin Glover face-mold

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oRWdY TIL of a road tunnel in Norway that has been closed - by a lorry-load of burning goat cheese. It burned for 5 days and got so got the stones cracked
e0yyg TIL of Adam Clayton, a guy in his 20's who fought for right to die legislation bill C14 in Canada, while dealing with incurable chronic nerve pain. He committed suicide in late 2016.
R7N84 TIL Leonard Cohen originally wrote 80 draft verses for his song "Hallelujah." He chose several of the most relevant and interchanged some of them depending on where he was playing.
M74YV TIL about Blindsight, blindness caused by damage to the brain's occipital cortex. People with blindsight cannot consciously see, but they still have a sense of depth and motion, can develop reflexes, "sense" when something is in front of them, etc.
Z8ybD TIL that in 1862 President Lincoln had to politely decline an offer from the king of Siam to send the United States a herd of elephants for use in the Civil War against the Confederacy.