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TIL The Italian military will start growing marijuana

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xVb8D TIL Approximately 80 percent of current US astronauts wears eye correction (i.e. glasses or contact lenses). As long as the astronauts' vision is correctable to 20/20, they're allowed to fly
ALQx TIL Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings films. He was offered $6 million per movie and a 15% stake in the box office profits. He instead declined the role stating he “never understood the script”. He would have made nearly $450 million had he accepted.
QJv1e TIL that due to the high number of foreigners in the UAE, where citizens make up only 11% of the population, the country is 72% male.
OLpR TIL the University of Florida student who coined “Don’t taze me bro!” trademarked the phrase less than 2 weeks after the incident.
NaeN TIL that during the Battle of Britain, German ace Adolf Galland was asked what his pilots needed to defeat the British. He replied “I should like an outfit of Spitfires for my squadron”; Galland had found that the British fighter was much more maneuverable than his own Bf 109 aircraft.