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TIL - Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo in Star Wars. (Big listing of roles actors turned down)

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e7Z5 TIL For a period of thirty years a man weighed everything he ate and drank, as well as all of his waste, in order to study metabolism
OoLeY TIL When German troops invaded Austria in 1938, they were actually greeted by thousands of hailing and cheering citizens, swastika flags, and even saluting frontier guards.
5YOpQ TIL about the “Magic 8”. Before 1491, corn, beans, squash, chili, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao weren’t found anywhere in the world outside of the Americas.
WkZAo TIL Australians used to hold each other's genitals as a form of greeting and to refuse a penis was a sign of hostility.
4Oa5 TIL there is a World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, where “the goal is to return the swastika’s true meaning of peace and harmony to this ancient symbol regretfully hijacked by the Nazis”