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TIL: Tupac Shakur auditioned to be Mace Windu in ‘Star Wars’

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LX6m TIL there is Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100
0dJ5j TIL that platinum was not known in Europe before the (re)discovery of the Americas. The first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 as a description of an unknown noble metal found between Darién and Mexico, "which no fire nor any Spanish artifice has yet been able to liquefy"
bdKQ TIL that a man in India set a world record in 1986 by spending 72 hours in a cage with 72 of the most venomous snake species in India; to spread awareness and to prove that snakes don’t bite unless provoked. He came out of the cage, unharmed without a single bite.
xVLNB TIL the British king or queen has two birthdays: their real birth date and one assigned to them during the summer, to ensure better weather for the parade
oMwL TIL Walt Disney bought his parents a house with a broken furnace which was inadequately fixed by Studio repairmen, causing his mother to die of asphyxiation