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TIL Michelle Trachtenberg was supposed to play Bella Swan in 'twilight’, but turned it down because she "had already done the vampire thing".

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X0vLE TIL: Oral ingestion of Visine warrants immediate medical attention or a call to a poison control center
R5xr9 TIL television viewing in the US peaked in 2009-10, when the average American household watched 8 hours and 55 minutes of TV per day, and the ’00s saw the greatest growth in TV viewing time of any decade since Nielsen began keeping track in 1949.
d4Er TIL that pirates wore gold and silver earrings for superstitious reasons like not drowning or getting seasick, and curing bad eyesight. Also, the earrings’ worth covered the cost of a proper burial. They were also helpful to dangle pieces of wax from to use as ear plugs near cannons.
neyvW TIL in 1986, a large male gorilla named Jambo stood between a five-year-old boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, after the boy fell into the gorilla exhibit and lost consciousness.
e0nJg TIL dying stars cause space to smell like "hot metal, diesel fumes and barbecue." Astronauts have also compared the smell of the moon to "spent gunpowder."