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TIL Tarantino created the part of Jules in Pulp Fiction for Laurence Fishburne but he turned it down. This created a butterfly effect that actually made Samuel L Jackson get the part in Die Hard 3 which also written for Fishburne

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QNK1L TIL that the best-selling video game of all time goes to the classic known as Tetris. IGN says 520 million copies of Tetris have been sold, citing data from The Tetris Company.
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my1O TIL that French chef Bernard Loiseau committed suicide in 2003 after Michelin told him that they were concerned about the quality of his restaurant’s cooking.
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