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TIL that Mark Wahlberg was supposed to play the lead role in 'Donnie Darko' but he refused cause he couldn't play it without a lisp.

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lopeB TIL that Keiko, the orca who played Willy in "Free Willy", was actually "freed" in 2002. However, he died the following year. Most sources conclude that he had become too reliant on humans to be able to integrate with other killer whales, and could not therefore adapt to life in the wild.
GAwmQ TIL of the original production of 20,351, approximately 238 Supermarine Spitfires exist today worldwide, with 111 located in the UK. About 54 are considered airworthy, including 30 in the UK.
R7Ng9 TIL The Inuit people of northern Greenland had many metal knives and tools despite having no mines or smelting: they used enormous iron meteorites for their metal which American explorer Robert E. Peary ultimately stole.
QNde6 TIL The reason most South and South-East Asian writing symbols are curved and rounded is that they were easier to inscribe into palm-leaves. The oldest surviving documents written in Sanskrit, dated two millennia old, were written on palm leaves.
R65j TIL that “begs the question” doesn’t mean ‘asks the question’, and instead is a logical fallacy that means 'the conclusion lacks support’.