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TIL Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss, and Albert Brooks all went to high school together

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kONkg TIL residents of Bikini Atoll were relocated by the US govt to much smaller islands without adequate food supply multiple times. After 20 years of starving they were allowed to return home, only to find it irradiated. They were relocated again, but their new island floods, and they must move AGAIN.
rRbP4 TIL 'Turn On' (1969) was the shortest lived show in TV history, being yanked off the air by some affiliates before it even returned from the first commercial break in the first episode. The creators were paid to never air it again.
OB4a TIL a caddie sued Michael Douglas for hitting him in the groin with a golf ball, resulting in the caddie losing a testicle and his job.
8aKO4 TIL of The Essex, an American ship which was attacked by a sperm whale in 1820. The 20-man crew set out in the surviving life boats for several months, resorting to drawing lots to decide who would be sacrificed and consumed. 8 men survived. The story was the inspiration for the novel 'Moby Dick'.
VMrE8 TIL, the Monterey Cyprus only grows in two small regions near Carmel and Monterey CA. At one point it was a part of a larger forest that extended to the continental shelf.