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TIL that Owen Wilson was considered to play Micheal Scott in The Office

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Vbnm TIL Boeing has created Microlattice,the world’s lightest metal which is 99.99% air.
eGD TIL Amelia Earhart most likely survived her plane crash and lived for a short while as a castaway on a small island in the south Pacific.
8r7V TIL of the Halcyon, a $2500, LaserDisc-based video game console from 1985. It was entirely voice-activated, and the manufacturer claimed it was as ‘intelligent’ as the HAL 9000. It never saw commercial release, and fewer than a dozen still exist.
kOjA4 TIL that Axolotls can regenerate the same organs and limbs up to 5 times, including its heart, arms, spine and parts of it's brain!
b9kG7 TIL before Fred the Red Manchester United had another mascot, Billy the goat. Billy would regularly drink with the players down the pub after a game. When United won the FA Cup in 1909, he had too much champagne in the post match celebrations & died of alcohol poisoning.