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TIL David Tennant was almost cast as Dr.Hannibal Lecter in NBC ¨Hannibal¨, the last two candidate being him and Mads Mikkelsen.

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R77j8 "About 90 percent of everything we buy will travel on ships"
Oong6 TIL the guns on the HMS Belfast, the battleship moored on the Thames, are aimed at a service station in North London
1arQ8 TIL if you scream for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you will generate enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
VBJQ0 TIL What the acronym FWIW stands for (For what it’s worth). I always believed it stood for from what I “We-member”. I thought I was missing out on an internet joke or meme.
N7rWN TIL that the interstellar travels of Voyager I and II were only possible due to a specific planetary alignment that only occurs every 175 years. The position of the 4 outer planets enabled a slingshot move which greatly increased the crafts speed.