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TIL: Pierce Brosnan could have played James Bond earlier in The Living Daylights but had to return to Remington Steele because it got popular due to Brosnan's offer to play James Bond. Timothy Dalton was given the role instead.

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V5D4 TIL a 2011 Harvard/Tufts study showed that most white Americans now believe anti-white racism has surpassed anti-black racism in the U.S.