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TIL that one of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first acting roles was playing an alien gladiator champion in an episode of ‘Star Trek: Voyager’

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D1rRr TIL in 2017, Apple announced plans to demolish a historic Aboriginal art gallery to make way for one of their stores in Melbourne. After intense backlash from Australians, authorities rejected the plan.
OoYDa TIL that prisoners in Paris were offered freedom if they married prostitutes and moved to Louisiana
R5arj TIL In the 4th century BC, Aristarchus of Samos proposed that the sun – not the earth – was the center of the universe. Copernicus proposed the same theory 1,800 later.
rRDEw TIL: of the Merryhill museum of art in middle of nowhere Washington State, originally intended as a country mansion for entrepreneur Sam Hill, In 1917 he was convinced by a friend to turn it into “a museum for the public good, and for the betterment of French art in the far Northwest of America.”
loayV TIL that Calgacus, the first Scot in recorded history, sounded a lot like an ancient William Wallace.