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TIL before Liam Neeson was cast as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Mel Gibson expressed interest in the part.

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l7P6N TIL that “smart” bullets, precision-guided firearm bullets that can alter course and accurately correct their path to a target, exist. They have been in development since as early as 2008 by DARPA and have been fire-tested successfully
6ErWl TIL of Musopen, a non-profit org. that provides high-quality recordings of classical music in the public domain, so that anyone can use them. The project emerged as a response to the big corporations in the music industry that were burying old artists, like Beethoven and Chopin, behind copyright
KO5nJ TIL about Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who infiltrated the Syrian government and became Chief Advisor to the Syrian Minister of Defense.
0dryR TIL about Mehmet Ali Ağca. Dude murdered a journalist and shot Pope John Paul II, got released from prison, then went to the Vatican and asked to meet Pope Francis and write a book with Dan Brown.
7xar TIL the human body produces trace amounts of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) which has been called “The most powerful hallucinogen known to man and science.”