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TIL that Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in "The Matrix" in favor of "Wild, Wild, West."

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4XXoX TIL that even a flamingo cadaver can stand upright on one leg without losing balance. It requires no muscle activity to stay in such a pose.
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b6rPZ TIL: George Bredig escaped the Nazi regime when Princeton offered him a job in 1940. Scientists and professors who did not swear an oath to the regime were fired. He managed to save his research and made significant contributions to electro chemistry. The Nazis lost 26% of their university chemists.
bWb9 TIL many years after Octavian agreed to Cicero’s name being placed on the proscription list, Octavian found his grandson reading a book by Cicero, he took it from him, read a bit of it, and then returned it saying: “He was a learned man, dear child, a learned man who loved his country”.
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