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TIL Timothy Olyphant was originally offered the role of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and The Furious. Olyphant passed thinking the movie would bomb at the box office and the role was given to Vin Diesel.

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epA7k TIL: there is a travel agency that will help you go to Somalia called Mogadishu Adventure. They promise to take you to Liido Beach and the Black Hawk Down site. They provide a full security detail and you get to stay at the airport hotel which has never been infiltrated by El-Shabaab.
R7646 TIL about Germany Schaefer, who played major-league baseball from 1901 to 1918. He liked to steal first base after reaching second to confuse the pitcher. After his retirement, a rule was passed that any player who ran the bases in the wrong direction would be called out.
woK96 TIL about ISSpresso, an espresso machine Italian coffee maker Lavazza created for the ISS. It was used in space between 2015 and 2017. Use of the machine was done in conjunction with a zero-g espresso cup. Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti became the first person to drink an espresso in space
RYBQ TIL in 2004, Dave Matthews Band dumped 800lbs of human waste from their tour bus onto a group of tourists in Chicago
p8AeZ TIL there are white rainbows, called fog bows.