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TIL when actor Christopher Lloyd arrived to audition for the role of Jim Ignatowski on the television show Taxi, unshaven and unshampooed, the receptionist thought he was a homeless person who had managed to wander past security and onto the Paramount lot.

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j66yX TIL about the Stadium Sponsorship Curse, which is the phenomenon of bad things happening to companies that put their name on a sports stadium.
jNVgE TIL: The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered the planet Pluto, were sent to outer space on the New Horizons spacecraft making his the first human remains to leave our solar system.
M7MX8 TIL that since Earth's creation the planet has been hit with 1/21,000,000th its mass in sunlight
QNJVL TIL:Forest glass was produced in northwestern and central Europe from approximately 1000–1700 AD using wood ash and sand as the main raw materials and made in factories known as glasshouses.
rRPJ0 TIL about 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria, she had her baby taken away by her mother-in-law who named child after herself, refused to allow Elisabeth to breastfeed or care for her own child. Her second daughter born year later was also taken from her