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TIL that Stephen King’s drug and alcohol addiction was so bad that he can barely remember writing Cujo. King’s family staged an intervention, showing him evidence taken from his office including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan and marijuana.

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NnYb TIL of Martin Pistorious, a man who fell into a coma as a young boy. 2 years into his 12 year vegetative state his conscience was awakened. He was trapped for 10 years in his body, unable to communicate, with only his thoughts for company.
WaDN 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.
yQVkX TIL the first British pilot to be shot down in WWII was in a friendly fire incident three days into the war
YoPx TIL All domesticated hamsters are descendents from a single brother sister pair that was found in Aleppo. They were bred in Jerusalem by a guy named Israel.
vPwkD TIL Lego donates model MRI kits to hospitals to help children understand the procedure and reduce their anxiety