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TIL Christopher Nolan cast Harry Styles in Dunkirk over hundreds of other candidates based on his "old-fashioned face." Nolan had no knowledge of Styles' fame as a singer.

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dYWr TIL that at least 3 of the astronauts were still alive after the Challenger Shuttle exploded.
nWWxr TIL that the remains of over 4000 Confederate Soldiers who died while Prisoners of War are buried in Oak Woods Cemetery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. A 30 foot tall monument marks their mass grave.
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