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TIL that when Crispin Glover was recast after Back to the Future Part 1, the crew was able to reverse cast prosthetics made for Glover to make a doppelganger for part 2 and 3. Glover sued, won and the Screen Actors Guild made a rule that no film can use the likeness of an actor without consent.

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xmK5 TIL after a millionaire gave everyone in a Florida neighborhood free college scholarships and free daycare, crime rate was cut in half and high school graduation rate increased from 25% to 100%.
QJpJL TIL a 1998 space simulation experiment put 7 men and a woman in a replica of the space station Mir for several months. After 110 days, the drunken space commander had assaulted the female researcher, threatened to murder another, and one participant fled the experiment early.
69bkw TIL TESLA is the only car manufacturer in the US whose workforce is not represented by a union
4XlR6 TIL about the experimental youth soccer team “Phoenix” that was comprised in 2015 of kids that had no or very little sporting talents. Initially, the team was losing by 20:1. Despite this, two years later, the team became the city's futsal champion. This year they won the Ukrainian Cup.
kBpg TIL during WWII, Pacific island natives thought the misplaced cargo parachute-drops delivered to them were from their dead ancestors. So, after the war, they imitated soldiers they had seen, reenacting marches with wooden rifles and built airplanes of straw, in hopes that the airdrops would return.