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TIL Harrison Ford was originally hired to build cabinets for George Lucas, and got the part of Han Solo on a whim

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WoDo TIL that in 1978 a physicist was hit in the head by a particle accelerator beam. He survived, finished his PhD, and is still alive today.
ad9M TIL Jimmy Fallon initially majored in Computer Science but dropped out a semester shy of a degree and switched to Communications. “I got out once it got really hard. I made it up to C++. Then I couldn’t do the math – it got really confusing.”
ANY8n TIL that Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders is a credited songwriter for "Smelly Cat" from the show Friends.
8eaYa TIL that Goodyear created colored, light-up tires in the 1960s. However, it never made it into mass-production, one reason being that other drivers drove too dangerously whilst trying to look at the tires.
Bv7y TIL The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, prevented commercial banks from trading securities with their clients’ deposits. The act eventually repealed during the Clinton Administration with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 which in turn caused the 2008 financial crisis