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Oo7e6 TIL Corey Hart (singer of "Sunglasses at Night") was briefly considered for the role of Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future. A flattered Hart declined, & the role eventually went to fellow Canadian Michael J. Fox instead.
XEmMR TIL In 1998, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against Microsoft, in essence claiming that Microsoft included too much functionality in its operating systems and thus prevented application vendors from competing.
PYg0E TIL a man was saved by not ordering Domino’s pizza. After 7 years of ordering everyday, the lack of an order got the store worried. Delivery driver stopped by his house to find him “crying for help.”
YpdMA TIL that the longest ice hockey game in history was game 5 of one of the quarter-finals of the 2016-17 Norwegian league playoffs. The game went into octuple overtime for a total of 157:14 of overtime, and 217:14 of hockey played. The game started at 18:00 and ended at 2:32 the next morning
000N TIL of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, who was so incredibly introverted that none of his hundreds of employees were even allowed to acknowledge him. He once fired a worker for raising his hat at him.