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TIL Daniel Craig rejected a $137 million dollar offer to star in another James Bond movie. When asked why, he replied he'd rather "break this glass and slash his wrists" than play Bond again.

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xVWwB TIL about Garden-Path Sentences such as "The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." which are grammatically correct but almost always read initially as nonsensical
5YEOQ TIL That in the aftermath of Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre, newspaper publisher Walter A. Strong asked his friend Herbert Hoover to put an end to Chicago's lawlessness, launching a multi-pronged attack on Al Capone, resulting in convictions for tax evasion, his imprisonment and death.
Br8Kd TIL of the Roman military ritual evocatio, in which they'd attempt to deprive an enemy of divine protection by summoning their god and promising to worship it better
KYZ1Q TIL that the term “Artificial Intelligence” was created by scientists John McCarthy, Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956.
negb7 TIL that the first self help book was called Self-Help and was written by Dr. Samuel Smiles who coined the phrase "God helps those who help themselves."