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TIL Ryan Gosling was cast in the movie “The Notebook” because the director was looking for someone that was “not handsome” and “not cool”.

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dDJm8 TIL July 1st is Bobby Bonilla Day
WkAOd TIL of Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)- Located in the Western Desert in Egypt, this site contains the fossilized remains of whales that show their evolution from life as a land-based animal to becoming an ocean-going mammal.
LkKLQ TIL that “Budweiser” was originally the German name for beer brewed in the Czech town of České Budějovice (German: Budweis). Anheuser-Busch stole the name for its American brew, and the breweries have been in trademark battles ever since. If you order a Budweiser in the EU, you get the Czech brew.
Ax9B TIL That Spongebob Squarepants was originally going to be called Spongeboy and the show was originally going to be called Spongeboy Ahoy, but they had to change his name after it turned out that Spongeboy was the copyrighted name of a mop.
ox5A TIL Telling other people your goals makes you less likely to achieve them. If you want to reach them, science says stop talking