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TIL that Eminem was offered the lead role in the film "Elysium" but reportedly turned it down, leading director to instead cast Matt Damon.

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8emwL TIL in only two seasons in Oakland, the American Basketball Association Oakland Oaks won 28% of their games the first year and 77% in their second, including the 1969 ABA Championship. The main difference was Rick Barry, who joined for one year after a salary dispute with the NBA’s Warriors.
7XMP TIL in 2017 Pueblo County will become the first governmental body in the world to offer college scholarships to their best students, fully paid for by marijuana taxes.
EgG4d TIL that McDonald’s is the largest toy distributor in the world. with roughly 5000 happy meal sold every minute which translates to 1.5 billion toys a year
nWl6o TIL desertification and food production trends in the Mongolian Plateau and in northern, central, and southern China have paralleled the rise, decline, and collapse of China’s historical dynasties
nNnd TIL Steve Buscemi was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984. After the events of 9/11, he showed up in NYC to volunteer, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters.