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TIL Mel Brooks offered the role of Waco Kid (Gene Wilder's character) in Blazing Saddles to John Wayne.

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Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
694x8 TIL Bangkok has longest name according to Guinness book of world records named as "Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit"
X0AYX TIL Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were headed for certain annihilation in their attempt to take San Juan Hill, until the 10th Calvary Buffalo soldiers, on their own request, flanked the Spanish, thus insuring victory.
78WbZ TIL there is actually no difference at all between Slurpees and Icees. They're made by the Icee Company and the exact same drink rebranded.
E1VRd TIL: In 2005, a Japanese stockbroker set the value of J-Com’s share price to one yen for 610,000 shares, when he was supposed to have set it to 610,000 yen for one share. That error costed J-Com 27 billion yen—or about $236 million—which was the near equivalent to their previous years’ total income.