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8vEZ TIL Dwayne Johnson was Tim Burton’s second choice to play the role of Willy Wonka in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.
9gar TIL that New York City officials admitted they forgot about a stalled train during the 2010 blizzard, which left dozens of passengers stranded for 7 hours. The subway chief said at a hearing they simply “forgot about that train.”
E1gDP TIL that during WW2 Australian soldiers and civilians and american soldiers clashed in a riot leaving 1 Australian dead and others injured.
eeVJ TIL that from 1787 through 1912, the US never went more than 15 years without adding a state. Then 47 years passed before Alaska joined the union and we are now in the longest period in US history without a state being added (54 years).
b9BRp TIL that Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, "the most overrated philanthropist in history," instead of main philanthropist Jeremiah Dummer, because Dummer College would have been a bad name.