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TIL Michael J. Fox was not the first actor cast as Marty McFly. That honor went to Eric Stoltz, but only a few weeks into filming, director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale fired Stoltz, and replace him with Fox.

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PYOO TIL that legendary American figure Johnny Appleseed set out to plant apple trees for hard cider, not eating.
LQAnP TIL about Catherine King and Wayne Adams, who built a floating compound on the west coast of Vancouver Island from salvaged materials and lived on it for more than 30 years.
pYx7Z TIL Colorado’s Department of Transportation regularly shuts down one of its major interstates on sunny mornings due to extreme sun glare
p4g8 TIL that Lord Walter Rothschild, an immensely wealthy banker and zoologist, drove a carriage harnessed to six zebras regularly to prove that zebras could be tamed.
4KnX TIL Israel and CIA Blew Up a Syrian Nuclear Reactor back in 2007 – didn’t admit it for a year…