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TIL every director of the original 4 Alien movies went on to very successful careers. Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet all went on to produce many classic films.

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epkn TIL a Haitian man was declared dead by 2 physicians, burried in a public cemetary, then 18 years later found roaming a village in a Zombie-like state.
Me8Wm TIL in 1959 a group of men transported a piece of iceberg from Norway to west Africa in a truck.
awv60 TIL that in 1948 a man became fatally stuck underneath his tractor, and used his pocketknife to scratch the words "In case I die in this mess, I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo Harris" into the fender. His scratching constituted a valid will.
8e684 TIL while exact numbers are not known, estimates indicate that nearly half of the remains of the dead in the US Civil War were never identified. This resulted from burials along marching routes or battlefields, and a lack of personal identification for soldiers
165xV TIL of Maurice Tillet, The Wrestler Who May Have Inspired Shrek