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TIL that Reba McEntire was offered the role of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" in James Cameron's Titanic, but turned it down due to filming being delayed beyond the 3 months she set aside to film it and she was worried about the people on her payroll not being able to work.

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66vw TIL Felix Landau, of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen (death squads), once shot and killed the Jewish personal dentist of a fellow officer. That officer, as an act of revenge, killed Landau’s ‘favorite jew’, the artist Bruno Schulz. He later told Landau “You killed my jew - I killed yours.”
O4W7 TIL there is a programming language which uses Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes as syntax.
KYMQG TIL only six states prohibit the inclusion of animals in circuses. Animal Defenders International estimate there are approximately 300 exotic/wild animals being used in circuses in the US.
nW4ZY TIL that the government of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, currently in Canada, has been in exile since 1919 making it the oldest operational government in exile
N7ExE TIL the deepest swimming pool in the world is the "Y-40 Deep Joy" in Italy. A staggering 130ft (40m) at it's deepest point, equivalent to the height of a 14 storey building, holding 4300 cubic meters of water! There's even a glass tunnel for spectators running a couple of meters below the surface.