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TIL after Kevin Costner declined the lead role in the film Tombstone to develop what turned into the film Wyatt Earp instead, he attempted to "blacklist" Tombstone & commandeered every Western costume in Hollywood. Yet it was more well-received & made more money than Wyatt Earp on a smaller budget.

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P1KDn TIL That the chair has been around for nearly 5000 years. The earliest example in the form of a sculpture from the Greek Cycladic Islands at approximately 2700 BC which was prior to Egyptian chairs, which were typically stools. Chairs with arms and backrests implied elite status.
D4wD TIL Freddie Mercury collected Koi carp, was a loyal godfather and rang his cats when he was away from home. Ten days before he died, Freddie said to his manager: “You can do whatever you like with my image, my music, remix it, re-release it, whatever. Just never make me boring”.
Owve TIL all of the actors in “Pirates of the Caribbean” learned how to work with cannons and swords in Pirates School, which included getting trained by the late famed swordsman Bob Anderson, who also was the lightsaber master who fought battles as Darth Vader in Star Wars films
VB4g8 TIL Pacific Electric (PE) was America’s largest interurban electric railway system, blanketing the Los Angeles region with more than 1,000 miles of rail lines
yVAnJ TIL that 43 students mysteriously vanished in southwestern Mexico in September 2014. It was revealed that police and the cartel worked together in the abduction, torture and murder of at least 38 student teachers from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College.