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TIL that Gene Roddenberry envisioned Jean-Luc Picard as someone who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair,” so Patrick Stewart auditioned for the role wearing an “awful looking” hairpiece. His performance impressed everyone so much that they hired him anyway, and made him ditch the toupee.

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M7BEV TIL a study shows time passes 4 nanoseconds faster per day at the 450m-high Tokyo Skytree observation deck than at ground level. A University of Tokyo professor said clocks "will become tools for measuring time and space, such as differences in altitude, in line with the theory of relativity".
0dX6j TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky was once mock executed and that he processed the event in his novel „The idiot“
Raw7 TIL Bruce Lee could perform one hand push-ups using only his thumb and index, perform 50 reps of one arm chin-ups, and throw a single grain of rice in the air and catch it with chop sticks.
9YZKM TIL in 1992 George H W Bush vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan then fainted. This resulted in the invention of the phrase "Bushu-suru" meaning "To do the Bush thing" or vomit.
EN5P TIL ‘65 Roses’ is commonly used by children as a name for cystic fibrosis because it is often diagnosed at a very young age and is easier for them to pronounce.