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TIL Ronald Reagan was once rejected for a movie role because an entertainment executive didn’t think he had “that presidential look.”

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7yVp TIL Phil Mickelson, the most famous left-handed golfer of all time (his nickname is “Lefty”) is actually right-handed. The reason he golfs left-handed is because he learned to swing by facing his father, a right-handed golfer, and mirroring his movements.
rRWP0 TIL : IN 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon hired a hitman to kill his 51-year-old wife. His wife ended up killing the hitman with her bare hands. When Susan Kuhnhausen had her hands on his neck she asked him, "TELL ME WHO SENT YOU HERE AND I WILL CALL YOU A FUCKING AMBULANCE!"
xewB TIL that mining corporate-hired “agents drove a heavily armored train through a tent colony at night, opening fire on women, men and children with a machine gun”(1912) to prevent unionization in the buildup to the 2nd largest insurrection in the US since the Civil War.
YppoG Velvet worms can shoot strings of goo Spiderman-like from their mouths to entangle their prey.
gMRV8 TIL that fellows of St John's College, Cambridge University are the only people other than the Queen who are legally allowed to eat unmarked mute swans in England