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TIL Matthew McConaughey turned down a $14.5 million film offer & took a hiatus in order to pivot his acting career outside of rom-coms. The decision came after he searched himself online & realized he was largely known as a "rom-com shirtless guy" which prevented him from being hired in other genres

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5P8p TIL prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years.
65pQ TIL ALL Chihuahuan lizards are female. Their eggs are unfertilized and the baby lizards are clones of their mothers.
brk0 TIL that, since WWII, the US economy consistently performs better under Democratic presidents.
ANL1g TIL that the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
8exOb TIL Saint Nicolas (the real Santa) is technically Asian as he was born in Antalya, Turkey