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TIL Dave Chappelle was offered the role of Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue in Forrest Gump, but turned down the part concerned the character was demeaning and the movie would bomb.

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NXglM TIL under the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war are required to be paid, depending on what their rank is respectively, either 8, 12, 50, 60, or 75 Swiss Francs a month by the Detaining Power.
awaDb TIL there are more than 2,000 variants of the game Chess including: Chad, Rollerball, Atomic, Beirut, Jedi Knight, Hexagonal, Schroedinger's, Kung-fu, Apocalypse, Crazyhouse, Einstein, Crazyhouse, Weird, Martian, Sniper, Synchronous, Knightmare, Hostage, Spartan, Extinction, Infinite & Kamikaze.
kJBo1 TIL that Mumbai (then known as Bombay) was a Portuguese colony before it came under British rule as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, (daughter of King John IV of Portugal) in her marriage to King Charles II.
PYjvG TIL the Nazi Germany nuclear weapons program was split in several agencies, including the Reich Postal Ministry
Bovx TIL that the FDIC strongly encourages mandatory two-week paid vacations for bankers because it is difficult to conceal embezzlement for that long while away from work