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TIL that Josh Hartnett was Christopher Nolan's first-choice for Bruce Wayne in 'Batman Begins' but he turned Nolan down because he didn't want to be typecasted as a superhero, which is when Nolan approached Christian Bale for the role. Hartnett now says that was "the worst decision of my career."

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R7Gl9 TIL of the FBI investigation into SAC capital - a hedge fund accused of using insider information in the largest such fraud to date.
V8d4 TIL that Queen Elizabeth has reigned for so long, that four out of five UK residents weren’t alive when she ascended the throne in 1953.
X0kjj TIL there was once a Danish chef who spent ten years undercover arranging a fake arms deal with North Korea - and filmed it all
x61o1 TIL that famous Egyptologist Howard Carter's gravestone has a quote from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, an artifact that he discovered. It reads "May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness."
dxw8 TIL Prince’s birth name was… Prince