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TIL Horatio G. Spafford wrote the famous hymn “It is Well With My Soul” after hearing that his four daughters had died on a ship collision. This was two years after his only son died to pneumonia and his entire business was destroyed by the Chicago fire.

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QJgka TIL the Beatles asked Stanley Kubrick to direct Lord of the Rings with them starring in it. John Lennon wanted to play Gollum, Paul McCartney Frodo, Ringo Starr Sam, and Harrison Gandalf. Kubrick turned them down, and Tolkien didn’t like the idea of a Beatles adaptation of his work
x64R1 TIL: In 1966, James Meredith, the first black man to be integrated into The University of Mississippi, organized a one man march to encourage African Americans to vote. Shortly into his march, he was shot in the neck, head, and back. Mr. Meredith is still alive.
60Xm TIL that during the Second Angle-Afghan War, Afghan women would use an execution method against the British where they would prop the soldiers mouth open to prevent swallowing and then take turns urinating into the soldiers mouth to drown him with urine
P1ELG TIL the Vietnamese people celebrate progressing to another year of life—i.e., their birthday—together, on the first day of their new year, Tét, calculating Year 1 based on their actual birthdates.
OKAR TIL Actor Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in at least one film for each of Disney’s owned studios. He played Nick Fury in the MCU (Marvel), he was a Jedi in the Star Wars prequels (Lucasfilms), Frozone in The Incredibles (Pixar), as well as the narrator for a Disney Nature Documentary “African Cats”.