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TIL Nicolas Cage turned down a lead role in the Lord of the Rings franchise.

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l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.
d865K TIL that even a gentle human voice is enough to make apex predators such as mountain lions flee in terror
1a5E8 TIL that India is home to Malabar giant squirrels- three-foot-long, multi-colored squirrels that range from black, brown and orange to maroon and purple.
E1B4o TIL Hercules had a fraternal twin brother, Iphicles. They shared the same mother, Alcmene, but while Hercules' father was Zeus, Iphicles' father was Amphitryon, a normal man. Born one day apart, the brothers were close and Iphicles' son, Iolaus, became a favorite companion of Hercules.
nr89 TIL That there is no archaeological evidence whatsoever that suggests Jews were ever enslaved in Egypt.