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TIL Will Smith turned down the role of Django in Django Unchained because it “wasn’t the lead” .

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VZ0Z TIL When you learn something new, for example someone tells you a new word, new piece of info, etc. your brain will start creating a frequency illusion called the Baader-Meinof illusion which starts to place the new piece of information everywhere and you will start seeing it much more frequently.
EGRx TIL Dreamworks’ Antz was made by former Disney employee who was told the story for Pixar’s A Bug’s Life years in advance. When he left Disney, he co-founded Dreamworks and used the story to make Antz, rushed production and released it a month before Pixar did. Pixar still grossed $70 million more.
vlL7 TIL: The CDC recommends that Ebola survivors should use condoms indefinitely.
vPwZ8 TIL the first Asian-American settlement was the fishing village of Saint Malo, in present-day Louisiana. It was settled by Filipino deserters of the Spanish navy and escaped slaves in as early as 1763.
m1Wpo TIL Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario preserves one of the largest known concentrations of pre-contact rock carvings in Canada. Several hundred images were carved by Algonkian Indians between A.D. 900 - 1400