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TIL Quentin Tarantino offered to direct ‘Casino Royale’ with the film set it in the 50’s, make it in black and white and retain Pierce Brosnan as Bond

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oJmr TIL - The word “Astronaut” literally means “Star sailor” The term derives from the Greek words ástron, meaning “star”, and nautes, meaning “sailor”.
JPm4 TIL Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, the civil war general involved in the early Ku Klux Klan, had a total of 29 horses shot out from under him during the war. He himself was shot four times, and he defeated over 30 Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
VBwkG TIL: Shakespeare and Dickens both used the phrase “Dead as a Doornail” in their work. Nails were handmade, super-valuable and often re-used. Doornails were “dead” because they were bent over like staples, making them unable to be used again.
gQdb TIL that two days before Chuck Yeager’s historic first flight to break the sound barrier, he fell off a horse and broke two ribs. He did not tell anyone, apart from his wife, and his friend Jack Ridley, who made him a device to close the X-1’s hatch out of a broom handle.
Z8gR TIL to date, we have only explored 5% of the sea.