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TIL that Halle Berry turned down the starring role in Speed that went to Sandra Bullock

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wv9Y TIL the Ancient Babylonians took their beer so seriously, if a brewer was found to be watering down his beer, he’d either be drowned in the barrel or forced to keep drinking it till he died
GxwJ TIL When nonpregnant people are asked if they would have a termination if their fetus tested positive for down syndrome 23–33% said yes. When women who screened positive are asked, 89–97% say yes
jNkPn TIL if you would melt the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland, it could supply every single person on the Earth with a litre of water every day for 4.5 years.
5xmR TIL, in 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. No charges were ever filed despite their being 30 - 40 witness to the shooting.
R7VQ4 TIL A 700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human Relative Someone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived—but who?