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TIL The CDC estimates that as many as 56,000 people die from the flu each year

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ndLB TIL Before being killed in a drive-by shooting, Tupac Shakur was set to audition for the role of Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels.
WBGo TIL the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series were not written by a single author, rather by a collection of ghost writers which which all wrote under a collective pseudonym.
VBWdB TIL There are around 300 petroglyph sites on the British Columbia coast, with concentrations on Gabriola Island. Only fewer than 30 can be dated and erosion means it is unlikely ancient carvings would be preserved. The Snuneymuxw request no photographs or rubbings be taken of the petroglyphs
P1Y6e TIL that resistance laundresses used super itching powder on German underwear and uniforms developed by the British SOE.
epApL TIL that Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made "that disgusting movie Psycho."