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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally cast to play Kyle Reese in the original Terminator, but after reading the script asked James Cameron to play the role of the machine, telling Cameron “trust me”

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Z8XgY TIL of Capt. Harith al-Sudani. He was an Iraqi spy who infiltrated IS. He foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks & 18 suicide bombers. Once his true identity was discovered he paid the ultimate price in the line of duty.
QJxpE TIL that Georgian troops deliberately torched Abkhazian Research Institute of History to remove any evidence that Abkhazians' lived in their historical homeland
LQvVp TIL the first AI generated image was created in the 1970s
ANpww TIL that Ryan Gosling was in a band called Dead Man's Bones and they released an album in 2009
rRnPe TIL Felix Bloch was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." He left Germany in 1933 and went on to become the first professor for theoretical physics at Stanford