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TIL Liam Neeson was offered the role as Ra's al Ghul in The CW's Arrow Season 3. He had previously played the same character in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. Neeson was willing to return to the role. But he had to turn it down because he didn't have the time for it.

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kamB TIL only 8 teams have won the NBA championship in the last 30 years
ADkBd TIL in 1935 a recently-captured shark vomited up a tatooed human arm. When a medical examination of the arm revealed it had not been bitten off by the shark but had been removed from its body in a non-surgical procedure, the focus of the investigation turned to murder.
lowxA TIL: Of the 22 people voted to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, 15 of them are are now either banned from FIFA for life, suspended, imprisoned, or fighting extradition to the USA to face federal charges. Only one still actually works for FIFA
OGx7a TIL Richard Axel received an MD from Johns Hopkins by promising the dean that he would never practice medicine. He switched to biological research instead and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for his work on olfaction.
wLemP TIL of Rebecca Chittum, a girl who was switched at birth with another girl and the mistake wasn’t discovered for 3 years. The day that the swap was realized, her biological parents died in a tragic car accident.