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TIL that Robert De Niro and Robin Williams were backup choices for Jack Nicholson to play Jack in “The Shining”

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KYLlB TIL multiple 19th century French artists (including Alexandre Dumas, Charles Baudelaire, and Eugene Delacroix) were members of the "Club des Hashischins," a club dedicated to doing hashish and other drugs together and exploring their effects.
KOvgE TIL pedestrianism was the biggest sport in America before the rise of modern spectator sports
9w6VX TIL: In 2010, New Jersey lost $400 million in federal education reform money due to submitting data from the wrong school year. This lost them 4.8 points, making them fall 3 points short of receiving federal aid which went to Ohio instead. People have called this a "stunning $400 million mistake"
6K6w TIL… that on Saturn and Jupiter it literally rains diamonds
4VLw TIL After two wars in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, the M1 Abrams tank has suffered only one combat death.