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TIL River Phoenix, the actor who played Chris Chambers in the 1986 film, Stand By Me was supposed to play Jack Dawson instead of Leanardo DiCaprio in Titanic before his overdose death in 1993

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MeO48 TIL of a fungus that has adapted to convert gamma radiation from Chernobyl into chemical energy
4kn46 TIL of Kathryn Lawes, the "Mother of Sing Sing" - She was a warden's wife and lived with her children in a facility at the infamous prison. She was so much beloved by the inmates — to the point that they all called her “Mother”
xYyD TIL that “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is onown as “The Disaster March” at circuses, because it is only ever played to signify an emergency without alarming the audience.
eOgk TIL after Hurricane Ike in 2008, Comcast customers were billed for unreturned equipment that had been destroyed by the hurricane. Customers were charged as much as $1000 for failing to return modems, DVRs, and other equipment that had been lost or destroyed.
b9nVN TIL that in 1997, while high on tequila and cocaine, Christian Slater was arrested and sentenced to 3 months in prison after being found guilty of repeatedly punching his girlfriend, biting a man on the chest, and attacking the police officers who came to arrest him.