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TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.

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4XGag TIL the 2nd oldest person to host Saturday Night Live was a non-celebrity who was born in 1897. Miskel Spillman, a German immigrant, joked "I'm 80 years old. I need one more cheap thrill, since my doctor told me I only have another 25 years left."
OGEAL TIL Tom Six who is the creator behind The Human Centipede Trilogy, was an original director for the Dutch TV series Big Brother. Big Brother became an international franchise with over 508 seasons in over 63 franchise countries and regions.
vyRj TIL that in 1966 Australia became the last democratic country to lift the ban on married women in the public service. The Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 stated that every female officer was “deemed to have retired from the Commonwealth service upon her marriage”.
kO0PE TIL that in a 1939 poll, Princeton freshman ranked Adolf Hitler as the greatest living person and ranked Einstein second.
GAYa5 TIL that the Moon (Earth's moon) is larger than Pluto