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TIL Clint Eastwood was discussed for the role of Two-Face in the 1960s Batman television series. However the character was cut for being “too gruesome and too violent” for the “kid-friendly” attitude that surrounded the show.

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6JnQ TIL in 1972, Col. John Ripley under intense unrelenting enemy fire, dangled for 3 hours under the Dong Ha bridge in order to attach 500 pounds of explosives to the span, ultimately obliterating it. His action, under enemy fire, thwarted an onslaught by 20,000 troops
R5lD8 TIL Philip K. Dick — who wrote the novels/stories behind Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, Total Recall, etc. — died just 4 months before the release of Blade Runner.
eGj6 TIL the Dutch King had secretly been piloting commercial KLM airplanes as a “relaxing hobby” for 21 years as of May, 2017
4Xwy5 TIL A condition among waterfowl called angel wing can be caused by eating bread. In ducks and geese with angel wing, their wings become deformed because the carpal joint grows incorrectly making them unable to migrate. instead of bread, feed corn and peas to ducks and geese.
awj99 TIL that Valentina Tereshkova, only 26 at the time, was the first women to fly into space.