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TIL of Walead Beshty, an artist who makes fragile glass and copper boxes and ships them to art galleries unprotected

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n76d TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was originally selected for the role of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho but he reluctantly did not take it as most of his fans were pre-teen girls
NXZVJ TIL that as the Soviet Union collapsed, a cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev was left stranded on board a Soviet space station. Because of this, he spent 311 consecutive days in space, twice as long as was originally planned.
B6Mk TIL Don LaFontaine, who was nicknamed “Thunder Throat” and “The Voice of God”, voiced over 5,000 movie trailers. His final voice over role was for an episode of Phineas and Ferb, in which he said in his final line: “In a world … There, I said it. Happy?”
grj1D TIL that Matt Damon didn’t just make a surprise appearance in EuroTrip (2004) —he actually played "Donny" the band's leader, and sang the song "Scotty Doesn’t Know," which became a cult hit.
RxD4 TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was holding up filming on ‘Django Unchained’ due to his reluctance to use racial epithets at his fellow actors. Samuel L. Jackson finally pulled him aside, explaining 'Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us’