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TIL When director Taylor Hackford approached Jamie Foxx to play Ray Charles he didn't know he was a piano player

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8eL TIL Ben Stein ardently opposes evolution, going so far to call it “a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies.”
OooyR TIL bison hunters did more to defeat the American Indian nations in a few years, than soldiers did in 50 years.
r7xW TIL when Team Canada’s Olympic gold medal-winning goalie Shannon Szabados was invited to take practice with the perennial last-place Edmonton Oilers in the spring of 2014, someone asked her if she was worried about getting hit on by the players. Her response: “Nope, they can’t score anyways.”
woljE TIL of an attempt to establish the first English settlement in America in 1587 -- before Jamestown -- called the Roanoke Colony. When a ship visited the settlement in 1590, the town was found deserted with the word "Croatoan" carved on a post. The whereabouts of the 117 colonists remains unknown.
d8AkQ TIL that the theme songs to DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Darkwing Duck, all have the same lead singer, Jeff Pescetto