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TIL a fan, not an actor, landed the role of Al's brother Cal on 'Home Improvement'

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Od61 TIL that in 1971 there was a failed attempt to adapt Dune to film. It would have included Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger acting with music by Pink Floyd. Its failure caused the SFX head to go into a psychiatric hospital where he later wrote the script for “Alien”.
N7VOM TIL on Metallica's 1986 tour, guitarist Kirk Hammet and bassist Cliff Burton drew cards for bunks. Burton won, drawing the ace of spades. Hammet replied, "Fine ... I'll sleep up front, it's probably better up there anyway." That night, the bus flipped and Burton was thrown from his bunk and crushed.
pY7x4 TIL, palm trees are not trees; but a type of grass. A palm tree does not create rings as it grows – it’s yearly growth isn’t marked on the tree a palm tree does not grow bark – it’s basically the same on the inside as the outside
dD6OB TIL that despite the notoriety of the Three Mile Island accident, wherein the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station suffered a partial meltdown, it resulted in no deaths and epidemiology studies on the region concluded that “the accident had no observable long-term health effects.”
vPQBB TIL the reason Roger Moore decided to end his 7 film run as James Bond was because he was disgusted by the greatly increasing age gap between himself and the leading ladies. The final straw was when he discovered he was older than the mother of “A View to a Kill” star Tanya Roberts.