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TIL Ben Affleck dropped out of college after his creative writing teacher ridiculed an early draft of the Good Will Hunting screenplay.

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gMXwb TIL that the reindeer named Donner and Blitzen were originally called Dunder and Blixem after the Dutch words for thunder and lightning.
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JVwm TIL the Greek poet Hipponax was so good at insulting people that his victims sometimes killed themselves.
dDxn9 TIL about Francis Kelsey of the FDA, who single-handedly saved the health and lives of countless babies by blocking the approval of Thalidomide, a drug that caused thousands of birth defects in 46 countries.
8MjV TIL a woman with her daughter tried to board a plane from Berlin to Manchester with her dead husband in a wheel chair in order to avoid the fees associated with transporting a corpse. She claimed that, “he always sleeps like that,” when authorities asked about his slouched appearance.