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TIL Nicole Sullivan was originally cast as Leela on the show Futurama

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Ypv1B TIL when Boeing fired over 70,000 employees in Seattle during the 1970s Boeing Bust, a billboard was placed on the highway leaving Seattle stating: “Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights.”
v15pL TIL to prepare for the role of Mark Renton in Trainspotting; Ewan McGregor considered injecting heroin to better understand the character.
0d8Kp TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.
QNWBp TIL in 1957, dentist Charles Kremer in New York voiced his suspicion that a high-ranking church official, Archbishop Valerian Trifa, was actually the Nazi war criminal Viorel Trifa. 20 years later, investigators found Trifa's fingerprint on a postcard to Heinrich Himmler in a German archive.
oBg5K TIL that the 1993 film Demolition Man jokes that Arnold Schwarzenegger serves as President of the United States in the future. Coincidentally, a day short of exactly ten years after the film's release, Schwarzenegger was elected as Governor of California.