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TIL that Ellen Degeneres turned down the role of Phoebe on “Friends.”

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kaBd TIL Greedo’s lines in Episode IV aren’t unintelligible nonsense: he’s actually speaking a form of a language called Quechua, which has almost 9 million native speakers
MeGG7 TIL between 1989 to 1992, Los Angeles watch merchant Lance Thomas was involved in 4 shootouts with armed robbers, killing 5 in exchange of being wounded 5 times but not severely. He eventually closed his shop to avoid further bloodshed two days before the 1992 L.A. riots broke out.
Z8erv TIL Because Nickelodeon’s Global GUTS featured 12 different countries, each episode had to be customized by region; with the exception of Great Britain, every international network had its own host and producer.
p8GD8 TIL the founder of the Smithsonian, James Smithson, was a British scientist who willed his fortune to his nephew and in the event his nephew died with no heirs, to the US government to found an "Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men"; having never visited the US.