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TIL that when Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard as War Machine for "Iron Man 2", then-Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter said nobody would notice because black people all "look the same"

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nRGr TIL horses kept in stables suffer from insomnia and stay awake up to 85% of the night. This leads to other issues like sleep rocking, sleepwalking, and night terrors.
yQKGw TIL of Jeanne de Clisson. After her husband was beheaded by the french, she sold all of her land and holdings to fund a pirate army. She hunted and destroyed all the French ships that they could. When she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
OovWY TIL: The world's smallest 'snowman' is only 2.7μm (micrometres) tall (in comparison a human hair is 75μm). To create it a scientist, Todd Simpson from Western University, stacked 3 tiny silica spheres, added a nose and arms made of platinum and cut the eyes and mouth with a focused ion beam.
xVeGb TIL 90% of all the scientists that have ever existed are alive today.
ADdLB TIL about the Oka Crisis, when the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, joined by natives from other communities in Canada and the United States, rebelled against an attempt by the local Canadian government to build a golf course over sacred Mohawk land.