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

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GAYv1 TIL that Oreos were invented 26 years before chocolate chip cookies. 1912 v 1938.
R8ja TIL that we are still in the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.
1aVdX TIL L.S.U. economists examined Louisiana's juvenile court records from 1996 to 2012 and discovered that when LSU lost football games it was expected to win, judges issued harsher sentences in the week following the loss.
nemxo TIL due to volcanic uplift, the beach on Iwo Jima where US troops came ashore in 1945 is now 56ft (17m) above sea level, and the beach where Captain Cook sent his surveying crew ashore in 1779 is now 131ft (40m) above sea level.
XyRE TIL that adults who were homeschooled often reference extreme social awkwardness as an obstacle they experienced upon entering college or the workforce. Others note astonishment and even anger towards their parents because they were shielded from scientific learning