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TIL the town of Muff, Ireland has a diving club

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9Yak7 TIL in 1987, production on the film Apt Pupil began with 17-year-old Rick Schroder cast as the lead. After ten weeks of filming, production suffered from lack of funds and was put on hold. A year later, Schroder had aged too much for the film to work and 40 minutes of usable footage was abandoned.
awX0 TIL when Patrick Stewart went bald at 19, “I believed that no woman would ever be interested in me again. I prepared myself for the reality that a large part of my life was over.”
l7LMK TIL about the 1957 Madison Square Garden wrestling riot where fans erupted into chaos, causing injuries, arrests, and nearly leading to wrestling being banned in New York.
jdla TIL that when Harald Bohr (brother of Niels Bohr), noted Danish mathematician & footballer, defended his doctoral thesis the audience consisted of more football fans than mathematicians.
xW6B TIL United Airlines failed to provide a wheelchair to a passenger with cerebral palsy; he had to crawl off the plane.