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TIL Ryan Gosling turned down the opportunity to be in the Backstreet Boys before they became big.

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daGj TIL that the Pacific island of Yap used to use a currency of giant stones. Since they were often too big to move, they were often left in the center of town, ownership was simply transferred by oral agreement.
bNOa TIL Alfred Hitchcock shot no more footage than absolutely necessary, on the irrefutable premise that the studio could hardly throw anything out of his movies if there was nothing else to put in.
x6bx0 TIL that Who Let the Dogs out by the Baha Men out is actually a feminist anthem about men catcalling women. The chant is a response to the women being catcalled on by a group of men, saying that if the men name call then the women can do it right back.
LQk8d TIL about the HMS Victoria, a 340’ battleship that collided with another ship in 1893 and sank. But when it sank it slammed into the seafloor with so much force that 3/4 of the ship is sticking out of the seafloor at a 90 degree angle
EKbp TIL The United States tried to buy Greenland for $100,000,000, but Denmark refused to sell.