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TIL Michael J Fox almost wasn’t casted as Alex Keaton on ‘Family Ties’ because NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff thought Fox didn’t have “the kind of face you’ll ever see on a lunch box”. Years later Fox would send Tartikoff a Marty McFly lunch box, which Tartikoff kept in his office.

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