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TIL that Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund was considered for the role of Han Solo, and told his friend Mark Hamill that he should try out for a role.

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awKdJ TIL - 90% of the revenue on Spotify goes to .5% of the artists on the platform (Spotify has over 8 million artists on the platform)
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gM9j4 TIL that women of the French royalty were required to give birth in public. Sometimes those births had scores of witnesses
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