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TIL a Hollywood executive once wanted Harriet Tubman to be played by Julia Roberts because “It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference’”

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E11Ko TIL: Quarts and Liters are almost exactly the same
RxNQ TIL that Cary Grant’s girlfriend convinced him to see Alice Cooper in concert. On the ride home, when she asked him what he thought of it, he said, “Remember I told you about the time I took LSD in my doctor’s office and shat all over his rug and floor?… Well now I know how that poor doctor felt.“
wXaE TIL that the Pakistan Army raped between 100,000-150,000 women in 1971 in East Pakistan (Bangladesh).
mZ8y TIL Lord Of The Rings is the second “most begun but never finished book” ever.
m9gP TIL that the word Ignorant is describing a person in the state of being unaware, and is often (incorrectly) used to describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard information