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TIL about Acinteyya (Unponderable), a Buddhist philosophical concept that describes certain questions, such as the origins of the cosmos and the concept of 'self', as inherently unsanswerable and beyond human comprehension, and thinking about them would only lead to confusion and suffering.

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VB4b0 TIL Steven Spielberg offered Tom Sizemore a role in Saving Private Ryan (1998) under the condition that he would be given a drug test at the end of every day of filming, and if he failed even one time, all his scenes would be re-shot with someone else. He stayed clean and completed the movie.
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