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TIL Will Smith turned down playing Neo(The Matrix) to make the wild wild west.

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M7ydA TIL that famed tennis player Andre Agassi's famous hairstyle was a wig and the night before Agassi was set to play the final of the 1999 French Open his wig fell apart and the makeshift wig that he created worried him so much during play that it cost him the match.
Z8dB4 TIL The best-selling English translations of Rumi, the famous 13th Century Persian poet, were done by a woefully underqualified man who doesn't know Persian; never studied Islam or Sufism; took extreme liberties with the original texts; and omitted much of the Islamic references and context
6V98 TIL In 1991 an experiment was carried out involving 5,000 people and one game of Pong, which demonstrated the potential power of the hive mind.
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