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TIL Roger Moore was the oldest actor to play James Bond at 57 in A View to a Kill. His dressing room was next door to co-star Grace Jones and he would bang on her door and complain when she played 'heavy metal' music too loud.

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a8m79 TIL that there was a civilization older than the culture of The Sumerians. It's located at The Göbekli Tepe Archaeological Site in Upper Mesopotamia, (modern-day Turkey). It's estimated that it goes back to 9500 BCE! Over 11,500 years ago and over 6,000 years before the founding of Sumer!
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