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TIL In Back to the Future the actress who played Jennifer couldn’t return for Part II due to her mother getting sick. This meant that the closing scene of Part I had to be re-shot with the new actress. They managed to re-film it with a near shot-for-shot match of the original.

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ywlM TIL of a Black Sabbath tribute band that dresses up in McDonald’s character costumes and sing black sabbath songs with the lyrics changed to sing about food. They are called “Mac Sabbath”.
1aG47 TIL that Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech so enthralling that reporters in the audience stopped taking notes and now we don't know what he said.
0xxj TIL Prior to Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin wrote incredibly freaky Science Fiction, including the very unsettling ‘Sandkings,’ first published in OMNI then later made into an Outer Limits episode.
dnxd TIL Following the pepper-spraying incident involving peaceful protesters and an overzealous Campus Cop, UC Davis spent at least $175K in an effort to ‘scrub’ the internet of negative posts about the incident, part of their “strategic communications” budget that reached $5.47M in 2015.
W7xp9 TIL: In 536 A.D., there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a year, resulting in widespread famine and disease.