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TIL that Matthew McConaughey originally auditioned with Kate Winslet for 'Titanic' (1997) and was confident he got the role of Jack, but Leonardo DiCaprio interviewed next and James Cameron said every woman in the building showed up for the meeting so he thought, 'maybe I should cast this guy'.

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LQlpm TIL that when Kentucky Fried Chicken moved its headquarters to Tennessee, Colonel Sanders (who had sold KFC in 1964, but still had much influence) said "This ain't no goddam Tennessee Fried Chicken, no matter what some slick, silk-suited son-of-a-bitch says". The company soon moved back to Kentucky.
4Qpa TIL: the Ogallala Aquifer, the aquifer that is responsible for supplying water for 30% of the United States agriculture, may be depleted by the 2028. The cause: over farming, as well as the coal and oil industries.
9wKyX TIL Since 1954, the supernova star iPTF14hls has exploded six times, somehow surviving each time. It’s a bizarre example of a “zombie star”.
awdA9 TIL, Elliott Rodger's complaints about so-called "rejections" from women as his excuse for a killing rampage in 2014, we're actually a perception he had that manifested after doing what others would call 'self-rejecting' and being 'closed off' from society.
OBwR TIL there are rats that live in a colony with a queen, workers and soldiers. They also: don’t feel pain, highly resistant to cancer, need very little oxygen and can live on a single tuber for months or years. Oh yes… and they get 3 times as old as any other rodent.