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TIL When casting the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film 'Iron Man', Marvel did not want Robert Downey Jr cast as the title character. The film's director 'would not take no for an answer' as he knew the character lined up perfectly with RDJ's life.

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p8rXp TIL about Bob Lambert, an undercover officer. He dated an activist while infiltrating her group, and even fathered a child, despite already having a wife and children. When the assignment ended, he simply vanished, leaving a two-year-old son behind. The London police paid £425,000 to avoid court.
EnOV TIL Nintendo is over a hundred years old, having been founded in 1889 as a playing card company.
epWx4 TIL a 2017 study found that 73 attacks by wild polar bears on humans occurred between 1870-2014, which resulted in 20 human deaths and 63 human injuries.
DmEV TIL that 76% of all known serial killers in the 20th century were from the United States.
VQYk TIL, In the novel I Am Legend, the vampires fear crosses, garlic and mirrors, only because they think they should.