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TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a James Bond film, but he was turned down by the franchise’s owners. When he told his friend George Lucas, Lucas said he had a film “just like James Bond but even better.” It was a story about an archaeologist named Indiana.

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vwDD TIL the Facebook co-founders were required to pay a huge amount of taxes when Facebook went public. It was around this time one of the five Facebook co-founders Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Singapore. He avoided paying $600,000,000 in taxes.
GrmG TIL when Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded, the executioner held her head aloft and said, “God save the Queen,” at which pointthe auburn tresses in his hand turned out to be a wig and the head fell to the ground, revealing that Mary had very short, grey hair.
Yo0Z TIL When the Nazi war criminals were hanged, many received facial injuries from falling through too small a trapdoor, and suffered a long death due to the rope being too short
gMkWb TIL of Lingchi, also known as death by a thousand cuts, which was a form of torture and execution used from roughly 900 CE until it was banned in 1905. It involved methodically slicing portions of the body over an extended period of time, eventually resulting in death.
pbWA TIL nearly 45% of recent college graduates are working in jobs which did not require a college degree