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

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OKG4 TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup, Benfica coach Béla Guttmann asked for a pay rise. When denied, he allegedly cursed the club and said: “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached 8 European Cup finals and lost all of them.
wLPD8 TIL that Pope John Paul II nominated Saint Isidore of Seville, a Bishop and Scholar, as the patron saint of the internet because he tried to record everything that was known in his 20 book opus Etymologies/Origins.
ANK57 TIL that King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia is the only ruling monarch in the world to be fluent in Czech.
OGJjL TIL about "Yasuke." Began researching Japanese history a few weeks ago and came across the first foreign born samurai
D1J5D TIL that Thursday actually means Thor's Day, named after the Norse God of Thunder.