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TIL that Crispin Glover was replaced as George Mcfly after Back to the Future 1, using an actor with prosthetics of his face, leading him to sue Universal Studios.

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PYrpV TIL that ketchup was not always the tomato sauce we have come to love. It originally meant 'brine of pickled fish' and contained ingredients such as egg whites, oysters, mushrooms and walnuts, among other things.
ADG64 TIL that in 2018 the US Navy started replacing $38,000 submarine periscope joysticks with $30 Xbox 360 controllers
j6d0M TIL about the Egyptian god Bes, protector of good things and households, whose depiction differs from the other Egyptian gods in that he faces forward rather than a side profile.
jNaea TIL 11,000 year old footprints of giant sloths have been found preserved in gypsum in New Mexico. Some also have human footprints within them, which effectively records all the action of a sloth hunt
Ooj4e TIL that there is s fungus called xylaria polymorpha which looks like dead man fingers protruding from the ground.