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TIL Marvel pays Stan Lee $1 million a year for life just for being Stan Lee

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v1MxL TIL Timothy Dalton was first approached to play James Bond n 1967, but felt he was far too young at only 21 years old, and, more importantly, didn’t want to be the first actor to follow Sean Connery. He was again asked in 1979, but did not like the direction the series had been going in at the time
WkkmY Maybe, but no one has ever proved it.
v7MK TIL that turning your body into a tree once you die and having forests instead of traditional cemeteries is an upcoming burial method.
yQ1W8 TIL The Christmas tradition of putting candles in one's windows is Irish Catholic in origin. When the English banned Catholicism Irish Catholics placed candles in their windows to secretly invite priests to receive the sacraments.
w651 TIL Carl Sagan’s anatomically correct naked man and woman were censored on the Voyager spacecraft Golden Record because critics found the nudity offensive.