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TIL George Clooney once was asked if he would ever play a gay role, his response was “I already did — as Batman”

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X0rrE TIL two men robbed banks with their faces covered in lemon juice because they thought it would make them invisible to security cameras. This led to the Dunning-Kruger effect: people with limited ability in a topic believe they excel.
l4xr TIL there was a US pilot of “The IT Crowd” and Moss was played by the same actor
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.
KPG4 TIL the record for the fastest manned aircraft was set in 1959, and still hasn’t been broken.
rRpnW TIL that almost nothing is known of the social organization or religious beliefs of the people who erected tens of thousands of menhirs (large upright stones) across Europe, Asia and Africa. There is not even any trace of these people's language.