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TIL that Frank Sinatra was offered the lead role in Die Hard

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RJr9 TIL that close to 50 million people died at the hands of Japanese aggression between 1931 and 1945 in the Asian Holocaust during the Asia Pacific War
MePwb TIL Libyan dictator Gaddafi's son, Al-Saadi Gaddafi, had a football "career". Announcers were only allowed to mention his name and the military prevented any protests. 'Recruited' into Serie A had one substitute appearance before failing a drug test. He was considered "twice as slow as slow itself."
GAYO7 TIL that the United States is the second oldest country in the world when going by the date of the current constitution
nQ7b TIL The British army had less than 48,000 troops at the onset of the American Revolutionary War, in less than four decades the army grew to more than 250,000 over the course of the Napoleonic Wars.
j6dwa TIL that domestic cats have an ID chip behind their ear that can be scanned to identify the cat and it's owner.