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8vEZ TIL Dwayne Johnson was Tim Burton’s second choice to play the role of Willy Wonka in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.
wor9E TIL that the NFL made a commitee to falsify information to cover up brain damage in their players
a8VrM TIL that at the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809, one of the French Generals was decapitated, while he was talking to a friend.
9w0k7 TIL Sir Christopher Lee, famous for roles like Count Dracula, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings, and Count Dooku in Star Wars, led a movie-like life. He was a descendant of Charlemagne, knighted war hero, heavy metal musician, Nazi hunter, and witnessed the last known public guillotine execution.
DnoP TIL that during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Russian submarine ordered a nuclear bomb to be launched against America thinking war had broken out on the surface, but was stopped by one man, single-handedly preventing nuclear war