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TIL Steve Carell wanted to play the Joker.

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b6QAZ TIL The last large remnant of Carib (indigenous people of the Caribbean) culture was destroyed in a 1902 volcano eruption.
QNW9k TIL that Italian Enrico Fermi was on the verge of developing bombs for Benito Mussolini, when he found out that Italy's anti-Jewish laws affected his wife, and sailed for the US using prize money from his 1938 Nobel Prize award. He later helped develop the nuclear bombs the US later used on Japan.
x6Qo5 TIL that when Pokémon was being localised for the US, Nintendo of America staff proposed redesigns for "cute" Pokémon, including a tiger-like Pikachu with "huge breasts". Satoru Iwata refused to submit the designs to Game Freak.
8e8R4 TIL that contrary to popular belief, sitting "straight" is bad for the back as it puts pressure on the spine, the position with the least pressure was found to be leaning 135 degrees backwards
nerjY TIL that in the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu, Count Orlok (Max Schreck) only blinks once in the movie.