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TIL that there were plans to have Hugh Jackman's Wolverine cameo in the original Spider-Man film. Once he was available to film, nobody could find his costume, so they cancelled it.

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Me4L7 TIL that Vincent Van Gogh might have been murdered by a teenage bully who dressed as a cowboy.
9YZgB TIL Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery in the American south by mailing himself to freedom. He had friends pack him into a small box, and ship him as cargo from Richmond to Philadelphia. He survived, and went on to work as a magician
0vrN TIL, in China, before it there was a vaccine, smallpox scabs were ground up and blown up the noses of healthy people in order to immunize them.
LGbv TIL, Ozzy Osborne had his genome sequenced to better understand how he’s still alive after years of hard drug and alcohol abuse. “There’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why”.
ne81B TIL that the Tetris theme song came from a russian folk song by the name of Коробе́йники