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TIL that John Leguizamo turned down the role of Tom Hanks' Lover In 'Philadelphia' so he could play Luigi in 'Super Mario Bros'

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Wk984 TIL that the morse code symbol for the letter V, dit-dit-dit-dah, is the same as the famous motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which can be represented by the Roman Numeral V.
9LoG TIL that due to incredibly high pressure on Uranus and Neptune, it is theorized that oceans of liquid diamond exist on the surface of the planet, with solid “diamond-bergs” floating on the surface
1aPGO TIL that NASA has a man that sniffs everything before it goes to space and if he doesn’t like the smell, the object doesn’t go into space.
xXpD TIL ‘Google’ is spelled the way it is because Larry Page and Sergey Brin accidentally misspelled 'googol’ when registering the trademark and domain name
wLJRE TIL the Psychedelic Frogfish, first scientifically described in 2009, has a number of colorful, kaleidoscopic stripes arranged in a fingerprint pattern. The fish lives among the similar-appearing coral rubble around Ambon Island, Indonesia where it can hide by crawling into narrow crevices.