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TIL that after Steve Carell left “The Office,” James Gandolfini of the “Sopranos” was reportedly offered the role and turned it down.

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nWdMW TIL that, despite its immense size, the Airbus A380 superjumbo has a landing speed of only 140 knots, which is comparable to various much smaller aircraft, and 20 knots slower than a 747.
P155Z TIL of the Galileo Spacecraft, which deployed a probe to penetrate Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe was going over 106,000 mph when it reached Jupiter, fast enough to travel from LA to NYC in 90 seconds. The probe transmitted data from within Jupiter for about an hour before pressure crushed it.
ANM9x TIL that Magnus Carlsen intentionally plays non-optimal moves during the opening to force his opponents to think for themselves instead of relying on memorized theory.
yQG7V TIL: It has been confirmed by both Tom Holland and Kevin Feige that Spider-Man was in Iron Man 2, he was the little boy in an Iron Man toy mask who stood against one of Vanko's armored drones.
gMV6b TIL Mozilla, maker of Firefox, has a list of 50,000 most common passwords of which can't be used when setting up a Firefox account