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TIL that when casting the 1978 Superman film, DC approved the following people to play Superman: Muhammad Ali, Al Pacino, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood and Dustin Hoffman.

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Wrl4 TIL on August 19, 1980, a Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight carrying 301 people caught fire shortly after takeoff. The plane landed safely but when the ground crew opened the doors, everyone was already dead.
4k8aJ TIL that titular typing tutor of 80s PC program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was the creation of one of the software developers, who sought to present a "friendly face" for a generation of very new and very wary computer users. Mavis was inspired by a Haitian-born woman named Renee L’Esperance.
X0MYQ TIL that during a murder trial in 1994 an English jury got drunk and consulted an Ouija board to determine the killer. This led to a retrial.
BrQpy TIL pinworms live in the gut but their eggs have to be eaten and hatch in the lower intestine. So at night they peek out the anus, causing people to itch themselves while sleeping, later transferring them to the mouth. 1/2 the world population has had them.
o4d7 TIL Kim Il Sung developed a calcium deposit the size of a baseball on the back of his neck. Because of it, he was only photographed from the front and citizens were jailed for mentioning it to each other.