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TIL Nicolas Cage was also offered the role of Neo in The Matrix, but turned it down saying that he was not mature enough as an actor.

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GNXJ TIL-Astronauts from the Gemini and Apollo missions used a condom like device to extract urine. The sizes were small, medium and large. Instead of these terms, Astronauts preferred to use “extra large, immense, and unbelievable”.
loVG TIL that Boston University has a “People Watching Club.” Members of the club meet at a different location once a week and stare at strangers.
jx9v TIL Lewis Carroll eventually did answer the Mad Hatter’s famous unanswered riddle, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” In an 1896 edition, he wrote, “Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!” [pg.71(5.)]
awgPZ TIL: Colin McGregor, the brother of Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor, is a pilot in the Royal Air Froce. His aviator nickname is Obi-Two
mJBx TIL Speedo invented a swimsuit so advanced, it broke 23 of 25 world records and was banned as being classed as “technological doping”.