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TIL Chickens can spontaneously change their sex

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geky TIL: Al Pacino was offered the role of Han Solo, but turned it down because he “didn’t understand the script.” He also turned down lead roles in Die Hard, Pretty Woman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, First Blood, Beverly Hills Cop, and Apocalypse Now.
4Zj6 TIL Han Solo was frozen at the end of ESB because they didn’t know if Harrison Ford would agree to do the next movie.
ovAW TIL The iPhone is the 2nd best selling product of all time, second only to the Rubik’s Cube.
MDB TIL that there is a German word for the sound which occurs when you’re rummaging for the right LEGO piece: Gruschteling
yQeNX TIL Mill workers in Manchester, England refused to touch slave-picked cotton during the US Civil War. Lincoln wrote a letter of thanks, and relief shipments were sent to the workers. Today, a statue of Lincoln stands in Manchester's Lincoln Square