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TIL that in the 2000 US Presidential Election, the margin for Bush in Florida was just 0.009% or 537 votes in a pool of 6 million voters

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ne6NB TIL that Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Kevin Costner were all offered and passed on the role of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption—Hanks instead chose Forrest Gump, and Costner chose Waterworld, while Cruise declined to work for the first time director Frank Darabont.
v1xdL TIL mannequins in stores or in the front windows of stores are often all white, but this can be changed to increase diversity and support all races
NXME8 TIL about the unusual death of a man in Spain in 2021, who died inside the leg of a paper-mache Steosaurus. It was thought the man entered the Stegosaurus to retrieve his phone, and days later was found by a father and son who noticed a smell coming from the statue.
Br9oK TIL Stephen Hawking once threw a cocktail party for time travelers, only sending out invitations afterwards. Nobody showed up.
16vVP TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins was a classical musician 50 years ago before his acting career took off. Back then he wrote a Walz and never heard it played until now, 50 years later!