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TIL Louisiana loses a football field of land every hour to the ocean

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4Wab TIL - Tim Burton was reportedly uncomfortable with casting Christopher Walken as Max Shreck in Batman Returns. When the casting director asked him why he said, “Because that man scares the hell out of me.”
yQyMw TIL about "A True Story", the first sci-fi novel written by a Greek-speaking Syrian in the 2nd century AD. This satire is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare.
W7g5X TIL in June 1998, Bill Morgan faced a near-death experience after a heart attack left him lifeless for approximately 14 minutes, only to be miraculously revived by doctors, leading to a 15-day coma. He defied the odds by winning a $30,000 car in a lottery draw, and astonishingly repeated his luck on
a89oy TIL Alaska P. Davidson was the first female special agent hired by the Bureau of Investigation. Davidson was hired by director William J. Burns in 1922 but was forced to resign by Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1924. Hoover forced all women to resign by 1929, there were no female officers until 1972.
dym8 TIL J.R.R. Tolkien finished his own translation of Beowulf in 1926, but never published it. One of his sons edited and published it for him this year.