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TIL In 1975 Al Pacino was offered the role of Han Solo in the film Star Wars, but he refused the role because "The script was too confusing"

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pp48 TIL of the high pitched voice theory of the Neanderthal, that because of the shape of their vocal chords, size of their head and rib cage, it’s likely Neanderthals would have had a very loud, high pitches voices.
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bGXN TIL Tesla could speak eight languages : Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and even Latin.
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