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TIL Bruce Willis expressed interest in the role of Boromir and Nicolas Cage received an offer to play Aragorn for the Lord of the Rings trilogy

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vQgx TIL 46.1% of the world’s population is now online - 3.4 billion people
6E5Nw TIL King James VI, who famously sponsored the modern translation of the Bible, was open about having several homosexual love affairs and was thus sometimes known as 'Queen James' by subjects
b6eG9 TIL salix herbacea - The dwarf willow is one of the smallest woody plants in the world. It typically grows to only 1–6 centimetres (1⁄2–2+1⁄2 inches) in height
Avlo TIL: Two mid-tier scientists were tasked with building a nuclear bomb to see how easy it would be for any country to make one, and they succeeded
7rM5x TIL The oldest known Koi was Hanako who lived to be 226 years.