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TIL Orson Welles was locked out of the editing room of Touch of Evil. Editing fell to Aaron Stell, who was rendered "ill, depressed and unhappy with the studio's impatience." After a series of edits and reshoots Welles wrote a 58 page report of needed improvements.

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1NRV Til The Amish population in the USA is not only steadily increasing over time but also migrating to states they previously did not inhabit
RLP7 TIL When Alan Shepard was asked what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”
P1JWE TIL that Greg Buckingham, older brother of Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, won a silver medal in the 1968 Olympics
4kag6 TIL that the highest point in Florida is Britton Hill, at 345 feet of elevation.
mpJE TIL A homeless guy who tried to save a woman from a knife-wielder was ignored by 20 people as he lay dying for an hour