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TIL Robin Williams was offered, and accepted the role of The Joker in the 1989 film, “Batman.” Warner Brothers had only made the offer to bait their first choice, Jack Nicholson, into signing on, which he eventually did. Williams was furious, and demanded an apology from the film studio
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TIL: The claim that the German public did not know about the concentration camps’ atrocities, generally made by Germans after Berlin fell in 1945 and accepted by most historians is false. Most of what happened in the camps were spread through German news in a process of “desensitization”.
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TIL that the term for the spikes on a stegosaurs tail – “Thagomizer” – originated with Gary Larsen and a Far Side cartoon. It is now widely accepted in the science community and is used as anatomical terminology by The Smithsonian, the Dinosaur National Monument, and the BBC in documentaries.
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TIL that the states of Mississippi and Alabama were originally part of the state of Georgia until officially recognized in 1802 when the state of Georgia accepted their borders and the territory of Mississippi which would later become the states of Mississippi and Alabama was formed.
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