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TIL Mark Mothersbaugh was offered the role of Doc Brown in Back to the Future before Christopher Lloyd

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0AKL TIL there is evidence of Methane based life on Titan, a moon of Saturn.
VKjD TIL that Samuel Jackson took Martin Luther King Sr. hostage during an equal rights protest in Memphis, Tennessee.
ep8Yk TIL a man died during a routine cataract surgery because the surgeon & anesthesiologist were playing music bingo and failed to notice a change in his vital signs (when he stopped breathing) because a monitor had been turned off (something the surgeon denied being aware of).
p8k4A TIL Mozart had Tourette’s syndrome. 11 out of 25 people that were associated with him talked about “his perpetual movements and mannerisms, which were regarded as facial and bodily tics”.
WkMW9 TIL Tipping became popular in the US during the decades following the Civil War, when some US employers began encouraging their customers to tip, thereby avoiding paying African-American employees a decent wage