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TIL there is a Merrica river… in Australia

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0gYj TIL Eddy Murphy, John Candy, and John Belushi were originally supposed to play the main roles in Ghostbusters but Murphy and Candy declined the roles and Belushi died before the script was finished.
16BOO TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.
8avBZ TIL that the stunt man for the Tin Man in the Wizard of OZ (1939) is still alive at 101. In one scene that had to be re-shot he accidentally pulled off the Cowardly Lion's tail.
lB71 TIL that 2001 A Space Odyssey had such a impact on astronauts that when the Apollo 8 crew were the first men to lay eyes on the far side of the moon they were tempted to radio back and say they saw a large black monolith
5dxD TIL Atheists and Agnostics are the most religiously literate group in the USA