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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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4kvOR TIL Iwo Jima changed its name back to Iōtō in 2007
loV75 TIL about the Two Headed Boy of Bengal born in 1783. The second head was upside down with the neck pointed straight up. Shockingly, the second head was fully functional. This extremely rare type of parasitic twinning is known as Craniopagus parasiticus, occurring in about 2 to 3 of 5,000,000 births.
KO8gR TIL At its peak, the Salton Sea was drawing 1.5 million visitors annually, more than Yosemite. At one point, it was also was the most productive fishery in California.
V5Q0 TIL that ‘paddywhack’ is the nuchal ligament of sheep and cattle - often dried to make a dog treat! (With a knick-knack paddywhack, give the dog a bone…)
Yxdx TIL: M.A.R.A.U.D.E.R was a US weapon able to produce doughnut shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating effects when hitting its target. The project’s initial success led to it becoming classified and no more details of how it developed after 1993 are available