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TIL Judd Nelson got into acting accidentally. His first audition was so he wouldn’t get kicked out of watching his friend audition. He got the part.

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PYJPJ TIL Tom Lester beat out 400 actors for the role of Eb on Green Acres, despite having no acting experience, because he was the only one auditioning who could actually milk a cow
16ly8 TIL polar bears don’t hibernate. Oh and it’s International Polar Bear Day!
8evpK [TIL] The Frisbee was created in the 1870's by someone throwing a pie tin. Fun fact, the pie company still exists and still sells pies.
OG814 TIL former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's voice was used to record the longest audio greeting to extraterrestrials on the Voyager Spacecraft; approx. 7 years after the spacecraft was launched, Waldheim was publicly accused of participating in war crimes by famed "Nazi Hunter" Eli Rosenbaum
LkJ5Z TIL before his murder spree that resulted in the deaths of 16 people, Charles Whitman left a note requesting an autopsy to see if there was a biological explanation for his actions, and increasingly intense headaches. The autopsy performed found that he a "pecan-sized," brain tumor.