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TIL Quentin Tarantino wanted Kurt Cobain to play to play Eric Stoltz’s character Lance (the drug dealer) in Pulp Fiction

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GAWK1 TIL about Maria Spelterini, who in 1876 became the first (and only) woman to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. She crossed several more times with increasingly difficult handicaps: peach baskets strapped to her feet, blindfolded, and with her wrists and ankles shackled together.
gMRy4 TIL there was a short-lived 16th century German colony in the Americas: Klein Venedig. Its capital, Neu Augsburg, is present-day Coro in Venezuela, which is the country’s second-oldest city.
rvv4 TIL that velociraptors are actually much smaller than they appear in Jurassic Park; they are modeled after a related species. However, shortly after production of the movie, a raptor species (Utahraptor) was discovered that was extremely similar to the movie raptors.
ANa6x TIL that Fantasmagorie (French word for phantasmagoria) was the first animated cartoon film in history produced by French cartoonist Emile Cohl in 1908.
a8v49 TIL that despite being green the South West Wilderness of Tasmania, Australia is completely uninhabited