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TIL The last surviving veteran of the American Civil War was Albert Woolson, a Union Army Soldier, who died on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106.

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awdnM TIL Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother suite in A Clockwork Orange. Pink Floyd's bassist Roger Waters refused when he found out Kubrick would edit the music to fit the film. Later, Waters asked Kubrick to use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey on a record. Kubrick refused.
AN9l7 TIL Joaquin Phoenix's older brother, River Phoenix, was set to play Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995), Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995) & Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). After his death in 1993, all these roles ultimately went to Leonardo DiCaprio.
mxwGy TIL Indian man sued his parents for giving birth to him.
8eRJL TIL in 1974 after the Cadillac Michigan Vikings football team lost their first two games, the coaches played Kiss before their practices. Winning the remainder of their games, Kiss showed up next year for their Homecoming dance.
R7P7l TIL events like earthquakes create differences between GMT and UTC that require the introduction of Leap Seconds to keep them in sync, the last one being Dec 31 2016.