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TIL about Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, the former president of Turkmenistan that ordered to close all the Hospitals in the country except for the ones in Ashgabat

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eEZg TIL John C. Reilly appeared in three of the five films nominated for Best Picture at the 2002 Academy Awards (Chicago, Gangs of New York, and The Hours)
nVb TIL John Candy was going to star in Pocahontas, as the voice of a turkey named Redfeather. But after his death, his character and dialogue were deleted.
rNK0w TIL Willem Dafoe has a penis so big, that in one of his movies he needed a “penis double” in order not to confuse people
xVDd0 TIL that King Midas turning his daughter into gold was not in the original myth; the daughter was added by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1852
neGEB TIL the 44th Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle misspelled the word potato at an elementary school spelling bee competition