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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger beat O.J. Simpson for the role of the Terminator because Simpson wasn't "menacing" enough to play a killer.

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oRB7R TIL NYC could have been even larger. A referendum was held on the consolidation of NYC in 1894, which included residents of all the modern Boroughs as well as communities in Westchester County. Voters in Mount Vernon and Yonkers rejected consolidation.
EgO4W TIL elephants are the only wild animal that understands pointing without human training
9YpBX TIL George Clooney once pranked Brad Pitt by putting a pot plant bumper sticker, which had "fuck cops" written on it, on the back of his car, leading to him getting pulled over by the cops. Clooney figured, "There's no way you don't get pulled over."
LQd5Z TIL that wycinanki - a Slavic version of the art of papercutting - became a popular folk craft in Poland in the mid-1800s. It is said to have originated with shepherds, passing time in the fields by cutting designs out of tree bark and leather, which were then used as decorations or given as gifts.
Z84VQ TIL of an early-twentieth-century novelist named Robert Walser who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, committed to a sanatorium and largely forgotten until it was discovered that the tiny, supposedly schizophrenia-induced markings on scraps of paper were actually a novel deciphered in the 1970's