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TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.

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kJBBe TIL although French toast was a popular dish generally served in U.S. railway dining cars in the early and mid-20th century, the Santa Fe Railway was especially known for it. Most of the railroads provided recipes for these and other dining car offerings to the public as a promotional feature.
e1jL TIL: Chris Hadfield (the first Canadian to walk in space and one time commander of the ISS) recorded the first music video in space. Before he handed over command of the ISS in May 2013, he paid tribute to David Bowie by recording his version of Space Oddity.
p8oGZ TIL Ali Hassan Al-Majid was named Chemical Ali because of his contributions to Bloody Friday. This Event was a Chemical attack in Kurdistan in which people who were hit by these gas bombs dropped dead. In some cases, they coughed up green vomit/died of laughter.
OGnJL TIL four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have been stolen. James Stewart and Kirk Douglas had their stars stolen but were recovered, and Gregory Peck and one of Gene Autry’s five stars were stolen but were never recovered. Each star weighs about 300 lbs.
x64w TIL There was a man, Mansa Musa, the wealthiest person in history, who spent so much gold personally in Egypt that he devalued gold and destroyed the country’s economy.