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TIL Patrick Stewart was the original narrator of The Nightmare Before Christmas but was replaced before release. You can still hear his version on the soundtrack.

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x6beD TIL of the "Shoe Fitting Flouroscope" or "X-Ray Shoe Fitter" which existed in shoe stores up until the 70's - Allowing customers (mostly children) to look through a viewer at a live X-Ray of their feet, to see the bones of their toes and how they lined up with the stitching of the shoe's sole.
WkPo TIL that “Django Unchained” will become one of the over thirty unofficial sequels to 1966’s “Django”
GYWJ7 TIL that Ontario’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, it’s illegal to sell wild game in restaurants. Some pass off game such as duck, boar or deer as wild when listing it on a menu — but if it’s for sale in a restaurant, it’s farmed.
nWXkd TIL about the Orgone Accumulator, a 1950s device claiming to attract massless, omnipresent substance healing energy. When the FDA was investigating the device, they noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for 4 hrs"
VKwQ TIL that the last letter added to the alphabet was J