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TIL The first guy to win “Who Wants to be Millionnaire?” John Carpenter, used none of his lifelines until the final question, where he called his Dad and told him that he didn’t need any help on the final question and just wanted to let him know that he is about to win 1,000,000$

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YDvG TIL that two conductors have died while conducting the second act of Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’. They collapsed from heart attacks at exactly the same point in the music due its technical demands.
e0X9D TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins was actually the second person considered for the part of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Sean Connery was offered the role first, but turned it down because he thought the script was “disgusting”.
awOkM TIL that evidence shows that a portion of a mountain in Pennsylvania was once connected to the same mountain in Morocco
b9ZaE TIL Castle Stairs always go clockwise (bottom to top) to give the owner an advantage in a sword fight
nWN17 TIL Rotational detonation engines are expected to replace rocket engines for space flight.