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TIL The production of the movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau" was so insanely difficult that inspired a documentary called "Lost Soul" . The director hated Val Kilmer so much that said “Even if I was directing a film called The Life of Val Kilmer, I wouldn’t have that prick in it”

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EVD7 TIL the Thirteen Club met in the 1880s to debunk the superstition about the number 13 by dining 13 to a table, walking under ladders, and spilling salt on Friday 13th. They had 5 US Presidents as members, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
b9QbE TIL that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima killed or injured over 90 percent of the doctors and 93 percent of the nurses in the city. On the day of the bombing, only one doctor, Terufumi Sasaki, remained on duty at the Red Cross Hospital.
yVlaJ TIL In 2015, a long-forgotten tape in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library containing a private conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1985 was discovered. It revealed a friendly moment between Reagan and Mulroney
WkomL TIL that Steve Guttenberg wanted to work with Ron Howard on Splash, but when he got turned down in favor of Tom Hanks, he quickly found his way into Police Academy. Ironically, the Police Academy producers had wanted Tom Hanks for the role that eventually went to Steve Guttenberg.
GYJMg TIL During the Nigerian Civil War, the two sides agreed to a 48-hour cease fire because Pele was in town to play an exhibition match, and everyone wanted to be free to watch it without worrying about the war.