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TIL Jason Mitchell, the actor that played Eazy E in ‘Straight Outta Compton’, couldn’t afford to fly out to Los Angeles for a callback audition. The director, F. Gary Gray, liked what he saw on his audition tape so he settled for a Skype meeting and Jason landed the part.

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R7EvQ TIL a German nun left heartbroken after seeing leprosy patients in Pakistan, where it was believed as a punishment from God & patients were ostracized, left everything behind & moved there to fight leprosy alone. She got the country (then population of 127 million) rid of disease.
VMdPB TIL In 430 BC a plague originating in Egypt broke out- spreading to Persia, Libya and Athens. The plague killed more than a quarter of the population.
yQDDv TIL of the Turner Doomsday Video where if the world were to ever end CNN would air this pre recorded video
R7O5Q TIL Intimidator 305, a steel roller coaster located in Doswell, Virginia had to be reconsructed because riders reported symptoms of greying or blacking out immediately following the first drop due to overwhelming G-forces, a 300 ft (91m) drop with an 85 degree maximum descent angle.
LwJQ TIL that in 1958 a man survived a mega-tsunami that had a run up height of 525m (1722 ft) because his fishing boat went right over it. He said he was looking down over the surrounding trees. This is the biggest tsunami on historic record by a looong way.