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TIL Ford offered Bob Zemeckis $75K to change the DeLorean in Back to the Future to a Ford Mustang. Bob's response was, "Doc Brown doesn't drive a fucking Mustang."

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rEAx TIL residents of Pompeii almost all died instantly from extreme heat rather than from suffocation fire to ash/toxic gases
b6ZJj TIL Oreos are a knock-off of Hydrox cookies, which came out four years earlier (in 1908)
9YlNr TIL Hermit crabs need to find new shells to move into as they grow. If one finds a shell that is too big it'll wait for a larger crab to come along so it can take their old shell. Other crabs congregate waiting for available shells and form a line from largest to smallest so they can all swap shells
6E9Ql TIL Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Who Wrote Such Hits as "Surfin' Safari" and "Surfin' USA," Has a Lifelong Fear of Water
0wXjR TIL In 2007, Keira Knightley was awarded £3,000 ($6,000) in damages from a lawsuit against Daily Mail for publishing an article about her having anorexia nervosa and added another £3,000 to this amount to donate to Beat, a charity for those who suffer mental illness and eating disorders.