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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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nWBmB TIL Richard Dedekind, who worked with Georg Cantor on infinite sets, was an exceptional mathematician but he never went beyond being a high school teacher in his hometown. Cantor wanted to enter University of Berlin but was prevented from doing so as his new branch of mathematics was rejected
LjAp TIL that it’s possible for well-educated intellectually active individuals to have Alzheimer’s and not show any of the symptoms of cognitive decline, even when the desease was progressed much and their brain is riddled with plaques and tangles. However, they still die of it.
wkxM TIL in 2008 a California nuclear plant was taken offline due to “a rapid influx of jellyfish”
OonyR TIL A report found that, for every $1 invested in the US National Park Service, the American public receives $4 in economic value.
nENo TIL that EA had to replace their cover athlete for ‘NHL 2004’ not once, but twice as their original choice was found to have assaulted a cop and their other choice killed his teammate in a car accident.