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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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VM75m TIL of Marty Irby who spoke out against soring TN Walking Horses: caustic stuff & weights are put on legs; a horse throws its leg in the air reacting to the pain which trains the horse for The Big Lick high-stepping. Irby got death threats & even his wife left him for taking a stance against soring.
m10Lp TIL that before joining Kiss, drummer Eric Carr's prior band, Creation, was performing at a nightclub when a fire broke out. Carr made it out but returned to help his bandmates escape. He was able rescue one but two band members along with 22 others all perished.
XEkaE TIL of Lucy, a chimpanzee who was raised to believe she was human. She learned to sign over 250 words and some of her hobbies included drinking gin, browsing Playgirl magazines, and masturbating using a vacuum cleaner.
noYo TIL when Russian pianist and composer Julius Isserlis defected in 1922, he found an apartment in Vienna, but the 102-year old landlady refused to rent to him since the last musician tenant was noisy and would spit on the floor. That tenant was Beethoven…
VMAQG TIL GOP US House Rep, Duke Cunningham, was convicted of several crimes, served prison time, and was released. Duke then tried to get a gun permit, but the judge denied the request citing a law that limits gun permits for convicted criminals – a law that Cunningham voted for while in Congress