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TIL That Sean Connery rejected the role of Gandalf, Morpheus, The Architect, and Austin Power’s father.

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7rBD7 TIL that a Ukrainian cult tried to recruit John Quijada, the inventor of an extremely complex language known as Ithkuil, believing that they could use it to create a new race with a superhuman intellect.
9wlMB TIL that, even though they are 2 totally independent countries, Portugal is in charge of the defense of São Tomé and Príncipe, being especially useful against pirates.
9YkBD TIL that volcanoes generate ~200 million tons of CO2 emissions annually while human activities generate ~24 billion tons of CO2 emissions.
1ogW TIL The Original Illuminati was an Enlightenment-era secret society in Bavaria created on May 1st 1776, The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.
N7DE6 TiL: There's a mutant who has been on the X-men for several years, but nobody at all ever remembered due to his power of immediately forgetting he existed once he leaves your point of view.