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TIL Eminem was asked to play the lead role in "Elysium", but declined due to him wanting the film produced in Detroit, his hometown. The role later went to Matt Damon

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kl7m TIL a man named Russell Jones, an art director from Park Slope, Brooklyn, received numerous phone calls from Wu-Tang fans who thought he was Russell Jones aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard. One time, Jones received a phone call from Method Man himself, who asked to speak to “Dirty”.
YpYxG TIL that during the UK general election of 1880, a well-presented book about one of the candidates was widely circulated, named "Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith". Spoiler alert, it contained 32 empty pages.
VBobB TIL the order of the national flags at NATO's headquarter in Belgium is moved one position further every Sunday at midnight since 1951
69LwZ TIL: There was a German medical study on Shuriken (ninja stars) wounds. They used pig carcasses while researchers threw a cyclone shuriken, a plastic one, and a traditional one. All 3 were capable of inflicting fatal wounds. This study served to promote discussion on the German shuriken ban of 1980.
9YXBm TIL about the Pulrich effect, which allows a video in 2d to be watched in 3d