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TIL Burt Reynolds turned down the movie terms of endearment for Stroker Ace which was a critically failure. Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for the role Reynolds turned down

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xOWo TIL The Canary Islands were named after the Latin word for dog (Canariae Insulae, “Island of Dogs”). It is the canary birds who are named after the island, not the other way around.
jWOv TIL Each year over 800,000 people worldwide die by suicide
rN1Nd TIL that Genericide is the term for when the name of a distinctive product becomes the generic term for a general class of products (e.g. Jell-O used to describe all gelatin desserts)
E6O7 TIL Acetaminophen kills far more Americans each year than terrorists do.
kJaX4 TIL Jane Goodall met her first husband, Hugo van Lawick when he came to photograph her for National Geographic in Gombe Stream National Park and married in 1964. They had a son nicknamed Grub. But when his funding dried up, he had to leave Gombe and the couple drifted apart