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TIL the original episode of South Park was the first and only episode to use cardboard cutouts

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grB5L TIL Michael J. Fox was not the first actor cast as Marty McFly. That honor went to Eric Stoltz, but only a few weeks into filming, director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale fired Stoltz, and replace him with Fox.
yVbLa TIL that Able Archer 83 was a war exercise conducted by NATO that panicked the Soviets into thinking they were really being attacked and so nearly launched a nuclear retaliation in response; it is now considered to be the nearest that mankind went into nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis
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yQ7ZX TIL that Owen Baggett, a Texas native, is the only known person to shoot down a plane while parachuting with a .45 during World War II. He did this after his own plane was shot down and a Japanese fighter pilot flew near him with his cockpit open.