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TIL Benicio Del Toro was originally chosen to play Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace but backed out when George Lucas cut most of the characters lines

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PX1L TIL that there have been five attempts to ban coffee throughout history. The last attempt being in 1777 by Frederick the Great of Prussia who issued a manifesto declaring beer’s superiority over coffee. He believed that coffee interfered with the country’s beer consumption.
D1aXV TIL ants will refuse “medical” help from their colony if they know they are mortally wounded. Rather than waste the colony’s resources and energy on futile rehabilitation, the wounded ant flails its legs forcing help to abandon them.
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