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TIL After Jean-Claude Van Damme's biggest movie hit (Timecop 1994), he was offered a 3 picture deal at $12M per picture. He turned it down and demanded he get the same deal as Jim Carrey - $20M per movie. He was rejected and his career never recovered. He later admitted he "acted like an idiot"

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MJY0 TIL when ISIS fighters were approached by Kurdish female fighters, they were told by their commanders to back off so they wouldn’t be killed by them. This is because Jihadists believe that if they die to a woman they will be deprived of heaven.
eerk TIL in the 1938 World Cup Sweden advanced to the quarterfinals due to an Austrian forfeit. The Austrians were forced to withdraw as their home country had just been invaded by Germany.
wLgL6 TIL the etymology of the word “humiliation” has a universal characteristic in the sense that in all languages the word involves “downward spatial orientation” in which “something or someone is pushed down and forcefully held there."
1avjW TIL that Frank Abagnale Jr. , once used a security guard disguise , bought at a local costume shop , to be able to label a box at an airport which money was being transfered to daily, with a sign stating: "Out of service, Place deposits with security guard on duty", which suprisingly worked.
wLaA1 TIL Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ (1981) is credited as the first rap song to ever top the US charts