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TIL about Clarence Dally, perhaps the first person to die of man-made radiation in 1904. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison on a new x-ray machine. He had to have both of his hands amputated but eventually died from cancer. Edison refused to work with x-rays ever again.

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QJW5e TIL in 1974 Egypt issued a passport to Pharaoh Ramses II. He died more than 3,000 years ago, but his mummified body needed a passport to fly to Paris for some repairs. On that special Egyptian passport, the pharaoh’s occupation was listed as "King (deceased)."
7rbZM TIL Jurassic Park almost had a sequel cartoon series in 1994
b96a4 TIL When Tim Schafer, co-designer of Secret of Monkey Island was being interviewed for LucasArts, he said he was a big fan of LucasArts' game "Ballblaster". The interviewer told him the game was named "Ballblazer" and only the pirated copies were named "Ballblaster"
KGeE TIL When Patrick Stewart was first asked to consider playing Professor X on film, the actor had no idea who the character was. So when one of the producers handed him an ‘X-Men’ comic from her desk he responded, “What am I doing on the front of a comic book?”
XJGX TIL that sports games are televised to their completion instead of a set time because of a football game called the Heidi Game that was cut short before a 2 touchdown upset in the last minute.