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TIL that loneliness can kill you!

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QJdEe TIL when the writers of LOST were pitching the show to ABC, the network was very concerned about the show being too serialized and genre based so they lied to ABC that you could drop in and watch from any episode, the show would be shot on a soundstage and there will be "no ultimate mystery".
Bryvb TIL when Paul Verhoeven first received the script for Robocop, he threw it away in disgust after glancing through it. His wife picked it up from the bin and read through it more thoroughly, and persuaded him that it had more substance than he initially thought.
MeAyV TIL the Toshiba Corporation dates back to 1875, founded by Tanaka Hisashige, who also designed and built Japan's first steam-powered train and warship using only a Dutch reference book.
Wk99L TIL that in 1973, three astronauts on the Skylab 4 mission went on strike in space because of NASA's tight work schedule and not enough time to rest.