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TIL that a school teacher once won a free trip to outer space but the rocketship blew up and everyone died

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pXMZ TIL during the Napoleanic War a French vessel wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool killing all the crew except for one monkey dressed in a military uniform. The people of Hartlepool having never seen a Frenchman or a monkey before held an impromptu trial for the monkey and sentenced it to death.
VMknG TIL in 1998, Marvel offered the cinematic rights of almost all of it's characters to Sony for a mere $25 million. Sony rejected the offer, and only purchased the rights to Spiderman for $10 million believing that movie audiences would only care about him.
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