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TIL Burt Reynolds was originally cast as George Spahn in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but he died shortly before filming began. However, he ended up contributing a memorable line to the movie when he told Tarantino to have someone tell Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth "You're kinda pretty for a stunt guy."

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DQDjj TIL The rarest eye color is green, as only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. About 10,000 years ago, all humans had brown eyes and over half the people in the world have them
xGLo TIL that in 1972, President Richard Nixon called Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula before the Super Bowl and recommended he run a certain play. The week prior, he reportedly did the same thing with the Washington Redskins. Both teams ran the plays he suggested; both plays failed. Both teams lost.
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v1bkr TIL that in 2018, an 18-year-old memorized the order of a shuffled deck of 52 cards in 12.74 seconds.