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TIL that Usain Bolt was offered a position as wide receiver in the NFL and rejected it due to the hits NFL players take.

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7r9eM TIL that there is 1400 tons of unexploded (and rapidly degrading) munitions 1.5 miles off the coast of Kent (UK). If it explodes, it would likely cause a bigger explosion than the one in Beirut.
ydYp TIL Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover. She declined because the screenplay ‘had no potential’
9wA1Q TIL the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse, was Queen of France for 20 minutes, the time between Charles X signing his abdication in favor of her husband and her husband, Louis Antoine, signing his abdication in favor of his nephew. Despite that, Louis Philippe became king.
xv6w TIL that Bradbury wrote the entire novel “Fahrenheit 451” in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library on a pay typewriter that he rented for a fee of ten cents per half an hour. It took him only 9,80$ and 9days.
x6ON0 TIL that the Spice Girls co-wrote all their own songs. When they left their original management, they allegedly stole the masters of their recordings from the management office to make sure they retained creative control of their work.