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TIL Jerry Zucker, director of Ghost (1990) didn't want Patrick Swayze or Whoopi Goldberg to audition, saying "over my dead body will Patrick Swayze ever play this role." Patrick ended up securing the part and helped change Jerry's mind on Whoopi Goldberg...the role she would win an academy for.

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oBAMW TIL the city of Philadelphia, which was where Washington had to live when he was president, had laws in place that said any slave that lived there for more than 6 months would be freed. So, Washington set up a rotational schedule exchanging his slaves between states to prevent their freedom.
awW7L TIL of the 1977 Chicago Bulls "Astronaut draft" of Armstrong, Glenn, and Sheppard.
Wv0N TIL that in ancient China, an emperor’s last line of defense was a small Pekingese dog literally hidden up his sleeve, that would viciously attack on command.
7rGEP TIL that at a point, breathing in Delhi, India was equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes a day.
Pj4g TIL: When the Romans returned from France and Germany with blonde slaves, some Roman women tried copying the look by dying their hair blond, only for it to fall out. Instead the women cut off the slaves hair to use as wigs.