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TIL that Charlie Cox failed an audition for the Han Solo film because he got used to not making eye contact while playing Daredevil.

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AN0bB TIL in 2011 the UK tried to eradicate all rats from Henderson Island. Only 50 individuals on a population of 50 000 survived, enough for them to grow back to their original numbers.
1kkD TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.
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