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TIL Sean Connery turned down role of Gandalf and 15% of LOTR box office

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rR8Gw TIL that Disney secretly bought up 10,000 acres of land around DC to build a new theme park. It ultimately never got built because the American history theme would have been too controversial
5E8n TIL that Korla Pandit, a prolific 1940’s musician from India and one of TV’s first musical stars, was actually an African American man from Missouri. His secret lasted until his death.
5vpp TIL the University of California pays its coaches more than they do their Nobel winning professors–on average, three times more than the system’s full-time Nobel laureates.
0w145 TIL New research published in Science Advances proposes that dinosaurs were actually warm-blooded creatures. Team of scientists from Yale Uni studied the arrangement of atoms in dinosaur eggshells to determine that the mothers who carried the eggs had warmer body temperatures than their surrounding
GAMNQ TIL that in some extremely impoverished areas, such as the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, residents use “flying toilets”: Plastic bags that, after being filled, are thrown as far away as possible.