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Til that Matthew McConaughey replaced Owen Wilson in ‘Tropic Thunder’ after Wilson’s battle with depression and attempt at suicide by overdosing and slitting his wrists

GAvN7 TIL Infants of high-BMI mothers may eat more enthusiastically, with more sucks per minute. Until age 2 there are no differences between infants of high-BMI (>30) and low-BMI (<20) mothers in terms of size, fatness and growth
m9NM TIL after Sitting Bull was released from prison, he joined the Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show making $50 per week for riding once around the arena. Quickly getting annoyed with the audience, he quit and returned to his people saying “I would rather die an Indian than live a white man.”
0wMJ1 TIL despite not having a nuclear engineering program (no engineering programs at all) Reed College in Portland, OR is the only liberal-arts school to have a nuclear reactor. It is run by undergraduates, and has more female operators than any other nuclear program in the world combined.
9YlDB TIL that digital cameras were developed so spy satellites could send images back to earth more quickly. Before digital cameras in 1976, spy satellites used film. After the film was shot, the satellites loaded the footage into capsules and dropped them from orbit into the atmosphere for collection.
rdmy TIL That John Hughes shot The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off back to back to save money. He also used the same crew and sets, including the high school with the same posters on the walls.