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wLAAW TIL the great argus is a species of pheasant from SE Asia. The male performs a very ostentatious mating ritual, sometimes humorously called "pick-a-card." Linnaeus named the bird owing to its intricate eye-like patterns on its wings, in reference to Argus, a 100-eyed character from Greek mythology.
8aDKa TIL that Michael Jackson and Sting were Jim Henson's first choices for Jareth in Labyrinth, before his son Brian convinced him that David Bowie would be perfect
XaKj TIL Henry Cavill almost missed the call for the role of Superman cause he was playing “World of Warcraft”
jNKPQ TIL about the "omnipotence paradox," where the ability to do anything and everything seems to lead to logically contradictory ideas such as creating square circles. Its most well-known version is the so-called paradox of the stone: "Could God create a stone so heavy that even He could not lift it?"
e0YwD TIL Danny DeVito’s height is the result of Fairbank’s Disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth.