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TIL Will Smith turned down Django because “Violence begets violence”

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1bEX TIL that Black gay men in America have the highest HIV rates in the developed world, and that by the age of 40, there is a 60% chance that they are infected with the virus.
5YWLR TIL that RMS Olympic offered to take on survivors of RMS Titanic, however the captain of Carpathia refused, claiming that the survivors would be traumatised if they were asked to board Titanic’s identical twin
XEYPR TIL that there is such a thing as a fear of sandwiches, wether it's fear of sandwiches themselves or being eaten by one.
P1EXJ TIL that the US Navy had the largest naval fleet in history with 6768 ships at the end of World War II
GXaG TIL that due to a robust immune system, Opossums are immune to a variety of deadly snake venom