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TIL Warner Brothers hated the name “Beetlejuice”, and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie “Scared Sheetless” and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.

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NXVd6 TIL about Harland Fairweather, who died in April 2017, aged 97. He was survived by his mother, who died five months later at age 117.
YpV0d TIL Dave Karnes (former US marine) left his office in CT as soon as he saw the 9/11 attack on the news, grabbed his uniform, got a regulation haircut, and went to Ground Zero THE DAY of the attack, and aided the rescue efforts. Then he re-enlisted and served TWO TOURS.
D1x7P TIL that Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux of said that “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
d8ppK TIL that in 1964 Reg Spiers, an australian athlete, shipped himself from London to Australia in a box, because he had no money to pay for a plane ticket to come back home for his daugter's birthday.
nYlW TIL that Lynx cats became extinct in Britain approximately 1,300 years ago and there is now serious plans to re-introduce them to the wilds.