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TIL : Richard Pryor co-wrote Blazing Saddles and was slated to play Sheriff Bart, but the Studio balked due to his drug use.

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LQewP TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. To accomplish this, Carter, alongside other American military personnel, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand.
DjZY TIL That in 2010, a band of Somali pirates attempted to capture the US Navy Frigate USS Nicholas, mistaking it for a merchant vessel
nKd9 TIL Half Price Books was founded by two men who pooled 2,000 of their own books as the store’s first merchandise.
R7E8w TIL in 2019, a vegan activist "rescued" 16 rabbits from a farm which lead to the death of nearly 100 baby bunnies.
xVA4b TIL of Peribsen, an early Egyptian pharaoh whose royal name identified him with the god Seth, rather than with Horus as tradition dictated (particularly strange, since the two gods were mortal enemies). Little is known of his reign, but he's conspicuously absent from later king lists.