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TIL that Shaq turned down the role of John Coffey in The Green Mile. And it worked perfectly for everyone, including us

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gYBL TIL: No other species, including our own, is responsible for the loss of as many human lives each year as mosquitoes
rR4Dw TIL that Carlo Kaiser had a decade long career as a professional soccer player, during which time he managed to hide the fact that he was a bad player through various techniques, such as faking injuries, changing teams, and befriending journalists who would write fake articles about him.
9jVM TIL about Irish trial marriages where there was one day out of the year where young couples joined hands through a hole in a wooden door. The trial marriage lasted a year and a day, at which time the marriage could be made permanent or broken without consequences.
9Y7BM TIL that during the hunt for Radovan Karadzic, a member of the US Seals dressed in a gorilla uniform, in the hope that Karadzic's bodyguard would be so dumbfounded at seeing one in Yugoslavia, they'd slow down enabling an attack by US forces.
9YjVr TIL the first vending machine to sell live crabs debuted in 2010 in a train station in Nanjing. The machine sells about 200 live crabs a day, with prices from $2 to $7. A sign next to the machine states each crab will come out alive, offering refund of three live crabs for every dead one to pop out.