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TIL Danny DeVito was nominated for both the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his role as The Penguin in Batman Returns.

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WkRE4 TIL the role as the Bond villain Max Zorin, a psychotic KGB deserter conspiring to destroy Silicon valley, was first offered to David Bowie, who declined as he didn't want to spend five months seeing his stunt doubles "fall off cliffs". The role went to Christopher Walken instead.
e0D56 TIL during WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
0xB5 TIL The planet Venus is nearly identical in size to Earth, their radius’ differ in size by only 201 miles, with Earth being the larger.
jNO4X TIL Emphaty is the capacity to place oneself in another's position and I accepted that my personality is emphatic by means of a personal experience which wouldn't make sense or wouldn't be painful if I wasn't emphatic and now I begin to understand my fascination for solitude and unknown stuffs
PVkO TIL that NPR posted a link “Why doesn’t America read anymore?” to their Facebook page; the link led to an April Fool’s message saying that many people comment on a story without ever reading the article & asking not to comment if you read the link; people commented immediately on how they do read.