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TIL Jamie Foxx got the role of Django in Django unchained, in part, because he had his own horse already. The horse he rides in the film was Jamie's actual horse, IRL.

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WkX88 TIL of William Howard Hughes, a United States Air Force officer with security clearance and expertise in rocket self-destruct technology, vanished in 1983. Authorities feared he had defected to the Soviet Union. In June 2018, he was found living in California under an assumed name.
9YNZX TIL In an effort to reduce the high number of suicides on South Korea’s Mapo Bridge, it was unofficially renamed the Bridge of Life. It was decorated with positive affirmations and even sympathetic sculptures. Suicides increased sixfold the following year.
QMDe TIL Obelus is the proper term for a division sign.
Z8pdv TIL a man in China has been drinking medicinal gasoline for 42 years and is still (probably) alive.
Wk4yd TIL oj simpson has arthritis in his hands, so during his trial, his lawyers told him to stop taking his medication so that his hands would swell. because of this, the glove didn’t fit his hands and he was acquitted