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TIL that Tom Cruise was originally slated to play Tony Stark/Iron Man but got dropped because he demanded that his face was visible at all times.

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bvnZ TIL that you are more than twice as likely to be a victim of knife crime in the UK as you are to be a victim of gun crime in the US.
4XELw At least one-third of early deaths could be prevented if everyone moved to a vegetarian diet, Harvard scientists have calculated.
ekEn TIL that Joseph Stalin, though depicted “as physically massive and majestic,” was actually only “5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m)”. He was shorter than Napoleon and President Truman referred to him as “a little squirt” after first meeting the dictator.
8eGxX TIL The world's largest burrito weighed 5,799.44 kg (12,785.576 lbs) and was achieved by CANIRAC La Paz, in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico on 3 November 2010. 54 restaurants spent 9 1/2 hours creating the 2.4 km (1.49 mi) burrito which was later enjoyed by thousands.
l68K TIL sea cucumbers move and hunt in herds.