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TIL Will Smith was offered the role in The Matrix but turned down the role of Neo to make Wild Wild West, because of skepticism over the film's ambitious bullet time special effects. Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt , Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio Johnny Depp also turned down the part.

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75w7 TIL Chris Farley was supposed to be the voice of Shrek and had finished recording almost all of his lines when he died, and he was replaced with Mike Myers. Later, Myers had to re-record all of his lines when he decided to give Shrek a Scottish accent.
5VW78 TIL Woody Harrelson's father was a contract killer and convicted of assassinating federal judge.
e4Z4 TIL a Catholic bishop named Robert Grosseteste described the birth of the Universe in an explosion and the crystallization of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth in 1225 AD - 4 centuries before Newton proposed gravity and 7 centuries before the Big Bang theory.
16pjV TIL Canada's e-scooter share program use technology to help determine if a rider is riding on a sidewalk instead of the street based on vibrations. People who ride on sidewalks will be mandated education and then fined
9BRp TIL that in 1912 the Australian national rugby team played 16 games in the US and Canada. It played poorly because players stayed in college frat houses and partied too much; one member said “We were never in bed. That was the trouble. I’ve never had such a time in my life”.