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TIL The movie ‘Jaws’ was supposed to have a lot more shark in it. After experiencing daily technical problems with the mechanical shark, Steven Spielberg was forced to rewrite the script and focus more on the 'fear of the unknown’. It went on to become the highest grossing film of all time.

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9YyOG TIL that, during the 2017 London Bridge Terror Attack, a man fought all three attackers with his fists shouting "Fuck you, I'm Millwall". He was stabbed eight times and survived.
YJmx TIL the Vatican’s chief astonomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
QYod TIL Julius Caesar owned a pet giraffe that Pliny referred to as a “wild sheep” because of its docile nature. Caesar eventually ended up feeding his giraffe to the lions at the Coliseum.
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