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Today I learned that Shaquille O’Neal was offered the role of John Coffey in the "Green Mile", but he declined.

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R7mpl TIL that not only did Brittany Murphy not die of drug OD/intoxication, but her widower husband died just 5 months later in the same manner: acute pneumonia and extreme anemia. To this day no one is sure what exactly caused their deaths.
85J4 TIL The beginning of History is marked by the invention of the library. The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing, cuneiform tablets discovered in temple rooms in Sumer dating back to 2600 BC. These archives mark the end of prehistory and the beginning of history.
6eVm TIL the first movie about the Titanic was released a month after its sinking, and starred one of its survivors
LQrXQ TIL Kellogg's cofounder John Kellogg ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek MI where his cereals were part of the patient's diet. Future competitor CW Post was a patient in 1891, settled in the same town and started selling his own knock-offs of Kellogg's cereals and even opened his own sanitarium in 1892
rR0ox TIL There are Shadow Doctors that Perform Surgery I came across a video of a youtube that was a translator for a hospital in South Korea and she elaborated on why she wouldn’t want plastic surgery done on her. I thought it was interesting and worth a share...