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TIL there is a Transylvania County in North Carolina

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4Lw TIL that Tim Burton was interested in making the film ‘Watchmen’ with Johnny Depp starring as The Comedian, but passed on the offer to make 'Sweeney Todd’ and 'Alice in Wonderland’.
AYrw TIL Instead of using spray cans some graffiti artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain surfaces to make their masterpieces. They call it Reverse Graffiti.
LkZVv TIL that in 3000 BC the North Star was not Polaris, but a star called Thuban, because the axis of the earth was pointed in a different direction back then. This is because of the precession of equinoxes speeding and slowing down of the earth's spin through imperceptible intervals.
x6LVk TIL in the '40s theatrical producer John Reber promoted a plan to build two dams to change most of San Francisco Bay into two freshwater lakes. He got a lot of support, but the US Army Corps of Engineers built a giant working model of the bay to show how this plan was a terrible idea
R5New TIL the cast and crew on the film Titanic were drugged after eating clam chowder laced with PCP.