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TIL that the Incredible Hulk’s green skin color was originally a result of printing error (he was originally grey) that Stan Lee liked.

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yJ5w TIL Spook Busters is a 1946 comedy film about a group of recent graduates who set up a company to exterminate ghosts in New York
d8ZWQ TIL Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.
b97p9 TIL The reason that US money is green is because according to the U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the ink was plentiful and durable and the color green was associated with stability
x00o TIL that the Irish last name prefix “Mac” means “son of” and prefix “O” means “grandson of”.
R7J0j TIL that many movie studios have avoided paying taxes/royalties that rely on a movie’s net profits, by using creative methods to reduce or eliminate the reported profits, also called “Hollywood Accounting”.