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TIL Eminem was second choice to star in the movie Elysium. The part eventually went to Matt Damon

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696eQ TIL about Barry Keenan who became the youngest member of the LA Stock Exchange at 21, got addicted to painkillers and went broke, kidnapped Frank Sinatra's son and was sentenced to life in prison, got released early, and died a real-estate millionaire
rRMZW TIL Bruce Lee did not die from a faulty prop gun on set, he died in his sleep due to an allergic reaction to the main ingriedient in the painkiller Equagesic.
5NeD TIL Monty Python’s movie, The Life of Brian, was funded solely by George Harrison of the Beatles after EMI backed out due to the subject matter.
OoM91 TIL that the first foreign professional player of Chelsea FC only played home games, because he worked in a bank and was "by no means mad about football."
DQOGY TIL of the Telecommunications Relay Service, a free service for all of the US and its territories, which lets people with hearing/speech disabilities to make phone calls