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TIL Back to the Future co-writer Bob Gale was reluctant to include original footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly for the Blu-Ray set because "We didn't want to make Eric feel bad". Stoltz shot for five weeks in the lead role before Michael J. Fox was picked instead

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mx6Mo TIL in 1997 Russia tried manually docking a supply vessel to the Mir space station using only a handheld laser range finder, stopwatch, and remote control joysticks. It went badly, but visiting NASA astronaut Michael Foale managed to save Mir by MacGyvering sailing technique with physics knowledge.
7QyX TIL there is a Japanese singer named Vanilla Chamu who has gone through 30+ surgeries to look like a French doll
6WXY TIL that for $100,000 you can have your dog cloned by a company called My Friend Again
LQyQp TIL there are 4 countries left in the world where a dead person's will can be ignored if they took their own life.
QJKx9 TIL That beer was considered a soft drink in Russia until 2011