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TIL Freddy Kruger was originally going to be played by veteran British actor David Warner.

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epdg TIL Bayer sold millions of $ of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs with a high risk of transmitting AIDS to Asia & Latin America in the mid-80s, while selling safer product in the West.
d8bv7 TIL growing almonds in California takes more than half of the commercial honeybees in the US, meaning they have to be temporarily shipped in from almost every other state.
grD94 TIL two prison escapees from Utah were arrested by UC Berkeley police officers after they claimed to be from San Francisco by saying "I'm from Frisco", which aroused the officers' suspicions because "no one from here ever says that."
aBDb TIL that Adrien Brody is one of the only Saturday Night Live hosts to improvise lines during the show and was subsequently banned from ever hosting again
MJY0 TIL when ISIS fighters were approached by Kurdish female fighters, they were told by their commanders to back off so they wouldn’t be killed by them. This is because Jihadists believe that if they die to a woman they will be deprived of heaven.