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TIL the first role Michael Cera auditioned for was the role of Cole in the Sixth Sense.

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Z6Aa TIL The camera on the Blackbird was so advanced that when it took a photo of a car on the ground that was 80,000 feet below it and the plane traveled at over 2,000 mph, the license plate would be visible in the photo.
b6Dj9 TIL the University of Toledo has a (disarmed) rocket pointed at the 50 yard line of their rival, Bowling Green State University
6NlQ TIL Al-Jahiz, an Arabic scholar, wrote about evolution and natural selection 1,000 years before Charles Darwin
XKjk TIL Peter Tripp, a radio DJ, stayed awake on air for 200 hours. The resulting sleep deprivation drove him crazy.
awEa0 TIL 1910 was the Argentinian Centennial. Countries from around the world sent gifts to Argentina. Most of these gifts were Argentinian-centric. The gift from the United States was American-centric and had nothing to do with Argentina. It was a statute of George Washington.