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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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6KnZ TIL that New York City doesn’t have sales tax for clothing items under $110
QN97M TIL about the "Battle Of The Beams", a period in WW2 when the Luftwaffe used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation for night bombing, and the British fought back with a variety of their own increasingly effective means, involving jamming and deception signals.
vJ88 TIL that Pharrell Williams requires a framed picture of Carl Sagan in his dressing room
ANkN4 TIL That, until recently, people who spent more than six months in Britain from 1980 to 1997 were unable to donate blood because of an outbreak of "mad cow disease" in the area at that time
MgjW TIL that after a road side bomb killed a Marine, his company invaded two random houses and killed 24 Iraqi men women and children. Only one Marine was charged and served 90 days in jail.