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TIL the role of Django was originally written for Will Smith, who turned it down due to him feeling he wouldn’t be the lead actor

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p8QGp TIL a then unknown Bob Dylan starred in the television play “Madhouse on Castle Street” on the BBC in 1963. It was later junked and no copies have survived. It is considered a lost artwork.
gM4bX TIL That evolution is faster in primates with larger testicles. A study of 55 species of primates found that there was a relationship between testicle size and genome mutation rates.
OG9V4 TIL that there is a negative form of the halo effect, called The Horn Effect , which allows one disliked trait or aspect of a person or product to negatively influence globally. For those seen in a negative light, anything they do that is negative is exemplified, while the positive are not seen.
BrYgb TIL of Junaid, an orphan from Bangladesh who lived in the streets surviving on scrap food, put himself through school by working as a carpenter, fisherman, almost died in an accident, worked at a brick factory while recovering from it and was accepted into a top engineering school
6EaNw TIL that face mites live in our facial pores, have eight legs like a spider, eat sebum (skin oil), and don't have anuses.