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TIL Jimmy Buffett saved Colin Jost's Life in 2014

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BggLK TIL James Cameron sold the rights the script of The Terminator for $1, so he could direct it.
R5wO8 TIL That even though Dalton Trumbo is known to be the creator of 'Roman Holiday' the son of the man who fronted the script (Trumbo was blacklisted) refused to turn over the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay to Trumbo's widow in 1993.
p84ap TIL that Bosnian Croats have the genetic potential to be the tallest population in the world, the average Herzegovinian man can grow to 6'3 (190cm) but they rarely reach that height due to poverty and malnutrition.
R7JW1 TIL in 1978, The House Select Committee on Assassinations reported John F. Kennedy's brain is missing. During the autopsy, his brain was removed and placed in a stainless steel box given to the Secret Service. The box was moved to the National Archives building in 1965. As of 1966, it was gone.
5VwPD TIL that Robert Hooke has been called “England’s Leonardo.” He discovered microorganisms and a law of elasticity; observed the rotation of planets; revolutionized city planning; and presaged theories of optics, gravity, and evolution.